comprehensive meaning
EN
[kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪv] [kɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪv] 
US WComprehensive
- Comprehensive may refer to:
- Comprehensive layout, the page layout of a proposed design as initially presented by the designer to a client
- Comprehensive school, a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude
- Comprehensive examination, an exam taken in some countries by graduates
FR compréhensive 
- NounPLcomprehensivesPREcom-SUF-ive
- (Britain) A comprehensive school.
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
- (Britain) A comprehensive school.
- AdjectiveCOMmore comprehensiveSUPmost comprehensive
- Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
- Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Measures of seafloor topographic complexity were used as a proxy for the availability of hardbottom, since a comprehensive map of hard and soft seafloor sediments was also not readily available.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of comprehensive in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- en comprehensives
- en comprehensively
- en comprehensiveness
- en comprehensive school
- en comprehensive schools
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "comprehensive" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.