Synonyms for Encompassing:

• adj.

  •across-the-board (adjective)
  • including all categories,
  • global,
  • including all members,
  • broad in content.
  •all-inclusive (adjective)
  • allinclusive,
  • all inclusive.
  •including (adjective)
  • ambient.
  •reaching (adjective)
  • ending at,
  • more joining,
  • more embracing,
  • most stretching,
  • more stretching,
  • re-aching,
  • most spanning,
  • re aching,
  • most meeting,
  • most joining,
  • more meeting,
  • most embracing,
  • more spanning.
  •surrounding (adjective)
  • more enclosing,
  • sur-rounding,
  • more circumambient,
  • most circumambient,
  • sur rounding,
  • more circumforaneous,
  • more around,
  • most around,
  • most circumforaneous,
  • most enclosing,
  • most circumferential,
  • more circumferential.

• adv

  •around (adverb)
  • in the vicinity,
  • all over,
  • in this area.

• n.

  •comprehensive (noun)
  • comprehensive.

• v.

  •encircling (verb)
  • Girding,
  • circling,
  • Wreathing.
  •enclosing (verb)
  • impounding,
  • Imprisoning,
  • enclosing,
  • Corralling,
  • enveloping,
  • trapping,
  • encircling,
  • covering,
  • Caging,
  • fencing,
  • embracing,
  • holding,
  • confining,
  • Containing.
  •including (verb)
  • Incorporating,
  • Embodying,
  • wedding,
  • enmeshing,
  • integrating,
  • composing,
  • Involving,
  • Comprising,
  • Marrying,
  • Entangling,
  • Including.

• Other synonyms:

  •across-the-board
  • across the board.
  •Other relevant words:
  • round,
  • enfolding,
  • grasping,
  • Incubating,
  • catch,
  • encircles,
  • Insuring,
  • Circumventing,
  • Addressing,
  • embody,
  • full,
  • involve,
  • follow,
  • surround,
  • roundabout,
  • bounding,
  • close,
  • crossing,
  • afflict,
  • inclosure,
  • besieging,
  • encircle,
  • envelop,
  • environ,
  • brooding,
  • hatching,
  • numbering,
  • wrapping,
  • comprehend,
  • personify,
  • apprehend,
  • comprise,
  • opponent,
  • wide-cut,
  • squeezing,
  • counting,
  • adopt,
  • Circumscribing,
  • enclosure,
  • Traversing,
  • Besiegement,
  • beset,
  • Comprehending,
  • opposition,
  • liberal,
  • curb,
  • contain,
  • obvious,
  • besieger,
  • blockade,
  • neighbouring,
  • Compensating,
  • besiege,
  • exhaustive,
  • encompasses,
  • approximately,
  • overcompensating,
  • omnibus,
  • tolerant,
  • Treating,
  • tracking,
  • environs,
  • hugging,
  • include,
  • Adopting,
  • unspecific,
  • sieging,
  • Compassing,
  • pursue,
  • plowing,
  • handling,
  • beleaguering,
  • Clasping,
  • shrouding,
  • Espousing,
  • inclusive,
  • entail,
  • closing,
  • siege,
  • foe,
  • enemy,
  • affect,
  • large-minded,
  • encirclement,
  • envelopment,
  • almost,
  • Perceiving,
  • suburban,
  • thorough,
  • beleaguer,
  • spacious,
  • investment,
  • about,
  • unsubtle,
  • roughly,
  • neighboring,
  • peripheral,
  • Environing,
  • enshrouding,
  • most,
  • panoptical,
  • reporting,
  • encompass,
  • Inclosing,
  • embrace,
  • petitioner,
  • complete,
  • sweeping,
  • completing,
  • encyclopedic,
  • Hemming,
  • Apprehending,
  • inclose,
  • cover,
  • rounding,
  • encyclopaedic,
  • hold.

Paraphrases for Encompassing:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Comprising.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    all-encompassing.

• Independent

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

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    covering.

Antonyms for Encompassing:

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    open, open up, remote.

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    incomprehensive, distant, noncomprehensive.

Encompassing Sentence Examples:

• Her emotions began to take control when faced with his encompassing desire.

• It is always ready, always on the watch, everywhere present, scattered, intangible and dense, stealthy and cowardly, diffuse, all - encompassing, innumerous, looming at every point of the horizon, rising from the waters and falling from the skies, indefatigable, inevitable, filling the whole of space and time for days, weeks and months without a minute's lull, without a second's intermission.