all-embracing

English

Etymology

all +‎ embracing

Adjective

all-embracing (not comparable)

1. Having a broad scope; of universal application.
   • 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:

     [...] 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

• exhaustive, thorough; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: kaikenkattava
• German: allumfassend (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: omnímodo (es), omnicomprensivo m, omniabarcador m, omnienglobante
• Ukrainian: всеохо́плюючий (vseoxópljujučyj), всеося́жний (vseosjážnyj)

References

• “all-embracing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.