encompassing - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | encompass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surround, circumscribe |
| Synonyms: | beset, circle, compass, encircle, enclose, envelop, environ, gird, girdle, ring, hem in |
| Main Entry: | encompass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | include, contain |
| Synonyms: | admit, comprehend, comprise, cover, embody, embrace, have, hold, incorporate, involve, subsume, take in |
| Antonyms: | exclude |
| Main Entry: | across-the-board |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broad in scope |
| Synonyms: | all, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, complete, comprehensive, encompassing, everything, extensive, global, sweeping, total, wide, widespread, all-embracing, all-encompassing, broad in content, including all categories, including all members, panoptic |
| Main Entry: | all-inclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comprehensive |
| Synonyms: | blanket*, broad, complete, encompassing, extensive, extensive, total |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | surrounding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | encircling |
| Synonyms: | around, encompassing, neighboring, circumambient, circumferential, circumforaneous, enclosing |
| Main Entry: | around |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | situated on sides, circumference, or in general area |
| Synonyms: | about, any which way, encompassing, everywhere, neighboring, over, throughout, all over, in the vicinity, in this area |
| Main Entry: | reaching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | extending to a point |
| Synonyms: | encompassing, meeting, touching, embracing, ending at, going up to, joining, spanning, spreading to, stretching |
| Main Entry: | beset |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plague; hem in |
| Synonyms: | aggress, assail, attack, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, besiege, bug*, circle*, compass, dog*, drive up the wall, embarrass, encircle, enclose, encompass, entangle, environ, fall on, fall upon, girdle, give a bad time, give a hard time, give one the business, give the needle, harass, harry, hassle, infest, invade, jump on one's case, nag, nudge, overrun, perplex, pester, pick on, put the squeeze on, ride, ring, start in on, storm, strike, surround |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | besiege |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surround; assault |
| Synonyms: | assail, attack, beleaguer, beset, blockade, confine, congregate, encircle, encompass, environ, invest, trap, come at from all sides, hem in, lay siege to, shut in, work on, work over |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
| Main Entry: | circle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go around, circumnavigate |
| Synonyms: | belt, cincture, circuit, circulate, circumscribe, coil, compass, curve, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, envelop, gird, girdle, gyrate, loop, pivot, revolve, ring, roll, rotate, round, spiral, surround, tour, wheel, whirl, begird, circumduct, ensphere, gyre, hem in, mill around, wind about |
| Main Entry: | circumscribe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mark off, delimit |
| Synonyms: | bar, bound, confine, define, delineate, demarcate, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, hamper, limit, nail down*, outline, restrain, restrict, surround, trammel, hem in, prelimit |
| Antonyms: | free, loose, open |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | compass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enclose |
| Synonyms: | beset, besiege, blockade, circle, circumscribe, encircle, encompass, environ, gird, girdle, ring, round, surround, hem in |
| Main Entry: | comprehend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | include |
| Synonyms: | comprise, contain, embody, embrace, enclose, encompass, have, involve, subsume, take in |
| Antonyms: | exclude, not include |
| Main Entry: | comprise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make up, consist of |
| Synonyms: | add up to, amount to, compass, compose, comprehend, constitute, contain, cover, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, engross, form, hold, include, incorporate, involve, span, subsume, sum up, take in, be composed of, be contained in |
| Notes: | compose is preferred when the parts of the whole being assembled are regarded as nonconcrete and more general; when the parts are concrete and specific, then constitute is more appropriate, and then there is comprise, which can mean 'comprehending or encompassing certain parts' comprise means literally 'embrace': a zoo comprises mammals, reptiles, and birds (because it 'embraces' or includes them), but animals do not comprise ('embrace') a zoo, they constitute a zoo |
| Antonyms: | except, exclude, fail, lack, need, want, fall short |
| Main Entry: | contain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | include, hold |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, comprehend, comprise, consist of, embody, embrace, enclose, encompass, have, hold, incorporate, involve, seat, subsume, take in, be composed of, have capacity for |
| Antonyms: | exclude |
| Main Entry: | co-opt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to assimilate in order to take over or appropriate |
| Synonyms: | absorb, accept, admit, adopt, bring in, bring into line, bring into the fold, connaturalize, convert, draw in, elect, embrace, encompass, enfold, homogenize, homologize, include, incorporate, make one's own, take in, take over |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | include, contain |
| Synonyms: | comprehend, comprise, consider, embody, embrace, encompass, examine, incorporate, involve, meet, reach, suffice, survey, be enough, deal with, provide for, refer to, take account of |
| Antonyms: | exclude |
| Main Entry: | define |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | delimit, outline |
| Synonyms: | belt, border, bound, circumscribe, compass, confine, curb, delineate, demarcate, distinguish, edge, encircle, enclose, encompass, envelop, establish, fix, flank, gird, girdle, limit, mark, rim, set, settle, surround, verge, fence in, mark out, set bounds to, stake out, wall in |
| Main Entry: | embody |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | include, integrate |
| Synonyms: | absorb, amalgamate, assimilate, blend, codify, collect, combine, comprehend, comprise, concentrate, consolidate, contain, embrace, encompass, establish, fuse, have, incorporate, involve, merge, organize, subsume, systematize, take in, unify, bring together |
| Antonyms: | disintegrate, exclude, disembody |
| Main Entry: | embrace |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | include in one's beliefs; take into account |
| Synonyms: | accept, accommodate, admit, adopt, comprehend, comprise, contain, cover, embody, enclose, encompass, espouse, grab, have, incorporate, involve, receive, seize, subsume, take advantage of, take in, take on, take up, welcome, avail oneself of, deal with*, get into, go in for, make use of, provide for |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, distrust, exclude, reject, shun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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