all-embracing

English

Etymology

From all +‎ embracing.

Adjective

all-embracing (not comparable)

1. Having a broad scope; of universal application.
   • 1945 September and October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:

     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.

   • 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

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ĉiotenanta
• Finnish: kaikenkattava
• German: allumfassend (de)
• Spanish: omnímodo (es), omnicomprensivo, omniabarcador, omniabarcante, omnienglobante
• Ukrainian: всеохо́плюючий (vseoxópljujučyj), всеося́жний (vseosjážnyj)

References

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