all-embracing

• Qualifie ce qui englobe ou couvre tout ; exhaustif et universel dans sa portée.

Describes something that includes or covers everything; comprehensive and universal in scope.

1. Comprehensive and inclusiveC1formal

   Covering or including everything; universal in scope or content.

   Global, englobant

   • The new policy is an all-embracing framework for employee rights.
   • Her all-embracing knowledge of history impressed the committee.
   • The treaty was designed to be an all-embracing solution to the conflict.

   Synonymesall-encompassingall-inclusivebroadcompletecomprehensiveexhaustiveinclusivethoroughuniversal

   Antonymesexclusivelimitednarrowrestrictedselective