Synonyms of the word

encompassing

• v. present participle of encompass.

across-the-board

• adj. wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability.

all-embracing

• adj. having a broad scope so as to have universal application.

all-encompassing

• adj. including everything; universal.

all-inclusive

• adj. Providing all amenities, benefits or perquisites in a single package.

blanket

• n. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
• n. A layer of anything.
• n. A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being…
• n. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
• adj. In general; covering or encompassing everything.
• v. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
• v. (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
• v. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
• v. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

broad

• adj. Wide in extent or scope.
• adj. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
• adj. Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained.
• adj. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
• adj. Plain; evident.
• adj. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
• adj. (dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
• adj. (of an accent) Strongly regional.
• adj. (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
• n. (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
• n. (US) A woman or girl.
• n. (Britain) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
• n. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
• n. (Britain, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in…

close

• v. (physical) To remove a gap.
• v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
• v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
• v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
• n. An end or conclusion.
• n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
• n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
• adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
• adj. Narrow; confined.
• adj. At a little distance; near.
• adj. Intimate; well-loved.
• adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
• adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
• adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
• adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
• adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
• adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
• adj. Short.
• adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
• adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
• adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
• adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
• adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
• adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
• adj. Marked, evident.
• n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
• n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
• n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
• n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
• n. A cathedral close.
• n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

comprehensive

• adj. Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
• n. (Britain) A comprehensive school.

extensive

• adj. Serving to extend or lengthen.
• adj. Widespread; covering an extent.
• adj. (physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.

panoptic

• adj. All-seeing; comprehensive, inclusive.

surrounding

• v. present participle of surround.
• n. An outlaying area; area in proximity to something.
• n. An environment.
• adj. which surrounds something.

wide

• adj. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
• adj. Large in scope.
• adj. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
• adj. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
• adj. (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs…
• adj. (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
• adj. Remote; distant; far.
• adj. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
• adj. (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit…
• adv. extensively.
• adv. completely.
• adv. away from a given goal.
• adv. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
• n. (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal…