ENGLISH DICTIONARY

All-embracing

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: All-embracing is an adjective meaning Having a broad scope; of universal application.

Meaning

Having a broad scope; of universal application.

Example Sentences

Another new station was planned—a bigger, vaster, all-embracing station, one that would last for all time.
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.
[...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains.

Synonyms for all-embracing

Depending on context, synonyms include exhaustive, thorough, comprehensive, broad, panoptic, encompassing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include all-encompassing, across-the-board, comprehensive, broad, wide, panoptic.

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