all-embracing

[awl-em-brey-sing]

adjective

1. covering or applying to all parts, types, things, or people; all-inclusive or all-encompassing; blanket.

   Revolution, as opposed to reform, is something radical and all-embracing, touching all aspects of society.

Word History and Origins

Origin of all-embracing¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

Their numbers are hard to gauge, as there is no all-embracing definition of what constitutes one.

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A cursive-print sign at the park’s exit bears her all-embracing message: “I will always love you.”

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Then again, it would be impossible for a work as voluminous and all-embracing as this one not to have its flaws.

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Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer best expressed the imagined reach of "the Great Fear," an all-embracing dread of a fiendish conspiracy that supposedly sought to strike at the very foundations of civilized life.

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“I successfully and independently led a company that gradually expanded into sectors beyond fashion to offer my all-embracing philosophy of lifestyle,” he says.

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Related Words

• absolute 
• bottomless 
• boundless 
• enormous 
• eternal 
• everlasting 
• immeasurable 
• immense 
• incalculable 
• inexhaustible 
• interminable 
• never-ending 
• perpetual 
• unending 
• untold 
• vast