all-embracing

Definition

Having a broad scope; of universal application.

Etymology

From all + embracing.

Example Sentences

• "The trouble today is that few such causes of delay are taken up with the people concerned; "there is a war on" provides the usual all-embracing excuse."
• "Another new station was planned—a bigger, vaster, all-embracing station, one that would last for all time."
• "[...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains."