all-encompassing

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Including everything; universal.
    — 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.

词形变化

more all-encompassing comparative most all-encompassing superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós
Proto-Germanic *allaz
Proto-Germanic *ala-
Proto-West Germanic *ala-
Old English æl-
Middle English all-
English all-
English encompassing
English all-encompassing
From all- + encompassing.
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