all-encompassing
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.35 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "[…] 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."
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.
Inflected Forms
more all-encompassing (comparative)
most all-encompassing (superlative)