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all-embracing

all-embracing adjective: having a broad scope; of universal application.

Adjective

all-embracing (not comparable)

  1. Having a broad scope; of universal application.
    • The trouble today is that few such causes of delay are taken up with the people concerned; "there is a war on" provides the usual all-embracing excuse.1945 September and October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 269
    • Another new station was planned—a bigger, vaster, all-embracing station, one that would last for all time.1958 September, C. Alan Cook, “Johannesburg's Fourth Station”, in Railway Magazine, pages 640-641
    Synonyms:
    exhaustive, thorough

Synonyms of all-embracing

Origin of all-embracing

From all + embracing.

Questions about all-embracing

What does all-embracing mean?
All-embracing means having a broad scope; of universal application.
What part of speech is all-embracing?
All-embracing is an adjective.

Words near all-embracing in the dictionary

  1. all-dayer
  2. all-devouring
  3. all-dressed
  4. all-eating
  5. all-electric
  6. all-embracing
  7. all-encompassing
  8. all-englobing
  9. all-everything
  10. all-expense
  11. all-expenses-paid

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