Usually means: Covering or including everything completely.
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  1. all-encompassing: Merriam-Webster
  2. all-encompassing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. all-encompassing: Vocabulary.com
  4. all-encompassing: Wordnik
  5. all-encompassing: Wiktionary
  6. all-encompassing: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. all-encompassing: Dictionary.com
  8. all-encompassing: Rhymezone
  9. all-encompassing: FreeDictionary.org
  10. all-encompassing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. all-encompassing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. all-encompassing: Merriam-Webster

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  1. all-encompassing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. all-encompassing: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Including everything; universal.

Similar:
all-inclusive, all-embracing, comprehensive, panoptic, wide, broad, across-the-board, blanket, encompassing, all around, more...

Opposite:
limited, specific, narrow, exclusive

Types:
omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, more...

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Similar:
all-inclusive, all-embracing, comprehensive, panoptic, wide, broad, across-the-board, blanket, encompassing, all around, more...

Opposite:
limited, specific, narrow, exclusive

Types:
omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, more...



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