Meanings
- not comparableHaving a broad scope; of universal application.
Another new station was planned—a bigger, vaster, all-embracing station, one that would last for all time.
1958 September 28, C. Alan Cook, “Johannesburg's Fourth Station”, in Railway Magazine, pages 640-6412 more examples
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.
1945 September and October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 269[...] 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.
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714Synonyms: exhaustive, thorough
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving a broad scope; of universal application.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebroad in scope or content
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Finnish kaikenkattava
- kaikenkattavaadjective
German allumfassend
- allumfassendadjective
Hebrew חוֹבֵק כֹּל
- חוֹבֵק כֹּל (ḥovéq kol)adjective
Spanish omniabarcante, omniabracante
- omniabarcanteadjective
- omniabracanteadjective
- omniabarcadoradjective
- omniabracadoradjective
Ukrainian всеохо́плюючий, всеося́жний
- всеохо́плюючий (vseoxópljujučyj)adjective
- всеося́жний (vseosjážnyj)adjective
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all-embracing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-embracing
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