Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
all-embracing \all-embracing\ adj. 1. 1 broad in scope or content.
Syn: all-inclusive, across-the-board, blanket(prenominal), broad, complete, global, panoptic, wide
Wiktionary
a. having a broad scope so as to have universal application
WordNet
adj. broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the-board, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide]
Usage examples of "all-embracing".
Florida Bay, and in the skittering baitfish and aristocratic wading birds and all-embracing solitude.
Who knows, perhaps telos, perhaps Eros, moves the entire Kosmos, and God may indeed be an all-embracing chaotic Attractor, acting, as Whitehead said, throughout the world by gentle persuasion toward love.
None of his names, among the Orientals, were the symbols of a divinely infinite love and tenderness, and all-embracing mercy.
Keeping the citywide grid of five-lane expressways open and the all-embracing network of rail tracks clear and functional for those three icy months of the year required thousands of snowplows and ancillary fleets of GPbots.
The noosphere transcends but embraces the biosphere, which transcends but embraces the physiosphereone huge holistic and all-embracing system, stretching from here to eternity.
Then for two hours the Nazi-hunter told Miller about the Odessa, from its start as an organization for getting wanted SS criminals to a place of safety to its development into an all-embracing free-masonry among those who had once worn the black-and-silver collars, their aiders and abettors.
Ki-Gor shifted his weight to his right leg, and swept the Baluba with one all-embracing glance.
The completely decentered self is the all-embracing Self (as Zen would say, the Self that is no-self).
A sound as floating, enigmatic, and decentered -- as 'ambient' and all-embracing -- as anything by Brian Eno, but charged with a violent sense of physicality that Eno's music simply does not possess.
He just looked around him once, in a sweeping, all-embracing stare, that didn't come to a head on any one fixed point, didn't centre at all.
Since his failure to achieve mutual grokking on this subject, even with his brother Mahmoud, with his admittedly imperfect translation of the all-embracing Martian concept as: "Thou art God," be had simply waited until grokking was possible.
This tells us, in accordance with what we have learnt earlier, that in the two cases there is a different relation of space to the cosmically distant, all-embracing plane.
The implicit geometry of the entire domain of a three-variable real-number field, compressed, embodied, and contained in an instantaneous, all-embracing experience.
The implicit geometry of the entire domain of a three-variable real-number field, compressed, embodied, and contained in an instantaneous, all-embracing experi.
Undoubtedly she would have found pleasure in the warmth of Friday's teasing sunrise over Florida Bay, and in the skittering baitfish and aristocratic wading birds and all-embracing solitude.