Synonyms for Encompassing:

adj.
• across-the-board
- broad in content
- including all categories
- including all members
- global
• encircling
- surrounding
• including
- encircling
- enveloping
• all-inclusive
- all inclusive
- allinclusive
adv.
• around
- all over
- in the vicinity
- in this area
v.
• encircling
- Girding
- Wreathing
- circling
• enclosing
- Caging
- Containing
- Corralling
- Imprisoning
- confining
- covering
- embracing
- enclosing
- fencing
- holding
- impounding
- trapping
• including
- Comprising
- Embodying
- Entangling
- Including
- Incorporating
- Involving
- Marrying
- composing
- enmeshing
- integrating
- wedding
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• across-the-board

across the board

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Equivalence
- Noun, singular or mass
  Comprising.
Reverse Entailment
- Adjective
  all-encompassing.
Independent
- Adjective
  all-embracing, all-inclusive, broad, extensive, included, inclusive, overall, sweeping, wide, wide-ranging, includes, overarching, broad-ranging.
- Noun, singular or mass
  inclusive, overall, umbrella, Including, Comprised, includes, overarching.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  absorbing, account, affecting, aligning, assembling, balancing, bearing, between, blending, boxing, bringing, centralizing, clustering, collecting, combining, compiling, constituted, controlling, convening, covering, dealing, depicting, detailing, embracing, encircling, enclosing, expanding, facing, focusing, focussing, forecasting, framing, gathering, giving, going, governing, grouping, guiding, holding, imposing, integrating, investigating, joining, kissing, know, knowing, laying, lining, listing, lying, making, matching, meaning, merging, naming, numbering, offering, overlapping, overlying, owing, posing, projecting, ranging, recovering, reflecting, regulating, rendering, representative, running, scheduling, serving, showing, spreading, stretching, supervising, surrounding, taking, touching, turning, uniting, varying, wearing, weaving, wondering, Acknowledging, Addressing, Afflicting, Affording, Aggregating, Aiming, Allowing, Amalgamating, Amounting, Anticipating, Applying, Appreciating, Associating, Attaching, Bridging, Carrying, Depending, Describing, Devoting, Doing, Embedding, Embodying, Employing, Enshrining, Entailing, Envisaging, Examining, Expecting, Explaining, Extending, Flanking, Forming, Gaining, Having, Heeding, Impacting, Implicating, Implying, Including, Inhabiting, Inserting, Instituting, Intending, Introducing, Involving, Linking, Managing, Occupying, Outlining, Overlaying, Permitting, Placing, Realizing, Recognizing, Referring, Relating, Requiring, Sheltering, Transforming, Treating, Totalling, Collating, Comprised, Comprising, Conferring, Considering, Consisting, Consolidating, Constituting, Containing, Pooling, Predicting, Prescribing, Providing, Purporting, Spanning, Specifying, Stating, Stipulating, Straddling, Mainstreaming, includes, representing, foreseeing, items, mandating, encasing, reuniting, featuring, targeting, subsuming, overarching, showcasing, mentoring, encapsulating, regrouping, harbouring, realising, inlcuding, i.e..
Other Related
- Noun, singular or mass
  covering.

What are the hypernyms for Encompassing?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
all-inclusive, broad, comprehensive, expansive, inclusive, sweeping, wide.

What are the opposite words for encompassing?

Encompassing is a term used to describe something that completely surrounds or includes everything within its limits. Its opposite, or antonym, would be something that is limited, restricted, or narrow. Some possible antonyms for encompassing could include words like partial, incomplete, limited, confined, exclusive, small, or specific. These words suggest a sense of restriction or boundaries, rather than the all-encompassing nature of something that is truly comprehensive or all-encompassing. Depending on the context, these antonyms may be used to highlight the limitations of a system or approach, or to emphasize the need for a broader, more inclusive perspective.

What are the antonyms for Encompassing?

adj.
• noun
- noncomprehensive
p. pr. & vb. n.
• noun
- distant
- incomprehensive
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Usage examples for Encompassing

Another wrote expressing the satisfaction and gratitude of the great majority of the inhabitants of his district in regard to his "efforts to cure the sad evils encompassing our brave countrymen;" and another wrote: "The last act of your official life was one of the most honourable of the sacrifices to duty which have so eminently distinguished you both as a man and a Minister."

"Lady-John-Russell"

MacCarthy, Desmond

Involuntarily his motions were subdued; silently, gently, he advanced into the midst of encompassing water and rock and darkness.

"The Unknown Sea"

Clemence Housman

He is deaf to their raucous song as he is blind to the mighty encompassing hills.

"In the Brooding Wild"

Ridgwell Cullum

Famous quotes with Encompassing

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

Julie Bishop
And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.

Joe Miller
During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.

Frederick Reines
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

Paul Ricoeur
Some years ago, many problems encountered by system developers were brought together in a pithy book by John Gall called (Gall 1975). The book applies equally to computer systems and to the encompassing systems of coordinated human enterprise. The book's style is droll but its purpose is serious; it should be required reading. Among the many important rules and admonitions the book advances are several worth repeating here for anyone contemplating biodiversity information systems development:

John Gall

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