all-consuming
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.89 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That consumes everything; that uses everything up.
Example Sentences
- "Google is the all-consuming superpower on the Internet; soon everything will be owned by them."
- "A myth common to several cultures in the galaxy, Reapers were once imagined as space monsters that consumed entire stars. Archaeologists who searched for the sources of such myths found little besides the themes of all-consuming devils that are common to primitive cultures."
- "It seems that they existed in some sort of previous incarnation of our universe, and use abstract terms to describe their existence, such as "feeding on concepts". They prepared for some sort of ascension, but then the Pattern came, which they describe at first as an all-consuming emptiness, elaborating by saying that anything that passed into it was torn asunder, subjected to a set of principles and order that grinds things down to nothing, in a process of which entropy is just one part."
- "Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that's been planned out with the precision of a military coup."
- "Brown revealed that his time as London Transport Commissioner has been all-consuming, describing it as "full-on"."
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 consuming English all-consuming From all- + consuming.