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all-encompassing

[ awl-en-kuhm-puh-sing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

First recorded in 1800–10

Not literally, but that was the impression I got; the hug was all-encompassing compassion, forgiveness and acceptance.

Heroin users describe the high as a feeling of all-encompassing well being.

Instead, he prefers to avoid that all-encompassing, data-friendly approach and go from the gut.

And that really encapsulates the pure spirit of all Icelanders: an all-encompassing passion that permeates everything they do.

Don meets Joy on a California business trip in Season 2, and they embark on an extremely brief, sunny, all-encompassing affair.

Socialism would introduce, indeed, the most vexatious and all-encompassing absolutist government ever invented.

What she was doing was not of herself; she had been moved to it by all-encompassing influences above, around, and beneath.

Inside the all-encompassing, roasting grid of the melting suit, Lonnie writhed.

No one to kneel beside him and pray for light in that awful, all-encompassing dark!

For a brief moment he succeeded, then the grayness moved in like an all-encompassing curtain.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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