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all-encompassing en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-Germanic *ala- Proto-West Germanic *ala- Old English æl- Middle English all- English all- English encompassing English all-encompassing From all- + encompassing.

Meanings

1. Including everything; universal.
   • […] since the goddess Antu did not hold a prominent status at Uruk before the fifth century. The primary purpose of MLC 1890 was evidently to present Antu as universal goddess and all-encompassing cosmic location. 2019 January 8, Christine Proust, John Steele, Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk, Springer, →ISBN, page 248:
   • This essay, "Identity: Skin Blood Heart," is an account of her struggle to wrench herself free from the all-encompassing racist indoctrination that white people in North America are taught. 1985 February 2, Malkah Barrsey Feldman, “Blacks & Jews: Vulnerability & Values”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 9:
   • The desire to get back into the womb can become, in a creative way, a making of a womb out of the whole world, including everything in the womb (the city, the enlarged universe of Black Spring, of The Black Book), the all-englobing, all-encompassing womb, holding everything. 1967, Anaïs Nin, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1939, Swallow Press, page 173:

Forms

Synonyms

all-embracing · all around · overall · all-inclusive · comprehensive

Translations (23)

ru всеобъе́млющий (including everything) · es omnienglobador (including everything) · cs všezahrnující (including everything) · nl allesomvattend (including everything) · ro universal (including everything) · tr bütüncül (including everything) · uk всеохо́плюючий (including everything) · cmn 全面的 (including everything) · mk сеопфатен (including everything) · oc universal (including everything) · es omnímodo (including everything) · pl wszechstronny (including everything) · es omnicomprehensivo (including everything) · tr kapsamlı (including everything) · nb altomfattende (including everything) · sv allomfattande (including everything) · cmn 綜合的 /综合的 (including everything) · uk всеося́жний (including everything) · fi kaikenkattava (including everything) · es omnienglobante (including everything) · es omnicomprensivo (including everything) · nb universell (including everything) · tr evrensel (including everything)