incl.

incl. is the abbreviation of including.

incl. is the abbreviation of inclusive.

Meaning of including

including

Such as, among which; introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned.
- All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
(nonstandard, rare) Introducing a finite clause.
- I have always argued that it is one that deserves a thorough-going policy review, which might come to all sorts of conclusions, including it is doing what the Government of the day wants it to.2006 March 27, John Whiting (of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC), transcribed in The 2006 Budget: Fourth Report of [United Kingdom House of Commons Treasury Committee] Session 2005-06, Volume II, page 20

inclusive (comparative more inclusive, superlative most inclusive)

Including (almost) everything within its scope.
- an inclusive list of data formats
Synonyms:

exhaustive
Including the extremes as well as the area between.
- numbers 1 to 10 inclusive
Antonyms:

exclusive
Of, or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when including the person being addressed.
- The pronoun in "If you want, we could go back to my place for coffee" is an inclusive "we".
Antonyms:

exclusive
Including or accepting those belonging to a particular group.
- trans-inclusive feminism
Synonyms:

inclusionary

Antonyms:

exclusionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: incl. (page history and authors); including (page history and authors); inclusive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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