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all-encompassing
[ awl-en-kuhm-puh-sing ]
adjective
- taking in or including everything; comprehensive, universal, or all-embracing:
The diner features an all-encompassing menu, including breakfast, brunch, lunch, snacks, cocktails, and dinner, in a range of cuisines.
Word History and Origins
Origin of all-encompassing1
Example Sentences
That was probably the biggest lesson I learned from YA: how to create flawed characters whose perspective still feels all-encompassing.
It’s beautiful and sad, horrifying and tragic, all-encompassing but also supremely lonely.
Alienation is one of those concepts that I've always been a little suspicious of because it could be so fuzzy and all-encompassing.
The all-encompassing figure for loss reflects the reality faced by those like Christine D., for whom the destruction of her home was a financial death blow to a way of life.
“Landslide” is an all-encompassing term that can describe any movement of rock, dirt or debris downhill.
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