Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

all-englobing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: al-l-en-glob-ing
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

All-encompassing.

Literary

Example Sentences

"God, our origin and foundation, our closest, all-penetrative environment, and our all-englobing end."
"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."
"What made the Flood special was that the destruction it wrought was all-englobing. Everything was destroyed and everyone not on Uta-napishti’s ship killed […]"

Etymology

From all- + englobing.

Usage

Literary

Inflected Forms

more all-englobing (comparative) most all-englobing (superlative)

Questions

What does all-englobing mean?: All-encompassing.
Where does all-englobing come from?: From all- + englobing.

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