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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