All-inclusive
including everything; comprehensive.
Contemporary Examples
They were remarkable affairs, not in the scale of their pretensions, but in their all-inclusive nature.
Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon Robert Sam Anson February 28, 2014
Historical Examples
It would be a virtual suppression of such native gifts among the common folk, not a definitive and all-inclusive suppression.
An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Thorstein Veblen
But, if God is all-inclusive mind, He must be the only thinker.
Carmen Ariza Charles Francis Stocking
He next examines this all-inclusive summary, with the intent of selecting the best course of action.
Sound Military Decision U.s. Naval War College
Our “free institutions” were self-sufficient and all-inclusive.
Prowling about Panama George A. Miller
And this one typical lake, the all-inclusive, is Chelan, “Beautiful Water.”
The Columbia River William Denison Lyman
Eucken is aware of the various Life-systems which present themselves on every side as all-inclusive.
An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken’s Philosophy W. Tudor Jones
We observe that we have here, first, an all-inclusive directory for the outward life.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren
He was regarded as the one culminating and all-inclusive genius among Japanese painters and print-designers.
Chats on Japanese Prints Arthur Davison Ficke
It is the all-inclusive vital force of human life—of real social development.
The home Charlotte Perkins Gilman
adjective
including everything; comprehensive
adj.
1813, from all + inclusive. Related: All-inclusively; all-inclusiveness.
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