COMPREHENSIVELY Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

comprehensively

adverb

as in systematically

with attention to all aspects or details no period in American history has been as comprehensively studied as the Civil War

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Recent Examples of comprehensively There is perhaps no restaurant in New York City right now more comprehensively opulent than Ambassadors Clubhouse, the ultra-luxurious Punjabi spot that occupies the ground and subterranean floors of the film company A24’s NoMad headquarters. —

Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 31 May 2026 Software is comprehensively tested in a staging environment before it’s delivered, and cloud teams use dev test environments to prove outcomes before changing the production environment. —

Nikhil Handigol, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 The six cameras now installed on the bridge don’t provide complete coverage and don’t allow police or other officials to comprehensively analyze an incident. —

David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026 Toothless at one end, so vulnerable at the other, and comprehensively outworked in midfield. —

James Pearce, New York Times, 16 May 2026 Research shows that combining aerobic exercise and resistance training can support your body more comprehensively than either type alone. —

Brittany Dube, Health, 5 May 2026 The tools of cinema change quickly, often comprehensively. —

Dennis Lim, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026 Built in the 1920s, the Reflecting Pool and its surroundings were comprehensively renovated in 2012, paid for by $34 million in Obama-era stimulus funding. —

Joe Walsh, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026 Now researchers have comprehensively looked at how birth order affects the likelihood of various health conditions. —

Sara Novak, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for comprehensively

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Rather than relying solely on manual workflows, modern platforms use automation to systematically explore potential attack paths, test common exploitation techniques, and identify reachable weaknesses across complex environments.

— William Jones, USA Today, 3 June 2026
Certain parts are engineered to be systematically replaced during routine maintenance, which lowers initial manufacturing constraints and reduces long-term operational overhead.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026