all-consuming
adjEtymology
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- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der. Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmōder. Old French consumerbor. Middle English consumen English consuming English all-consuming From all- + consuming.
- derived from consumerbor
- derived from *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmōder✻
- derived from *h₂el-der✻
Definitions
That consumes everything
That consumes everything; that uses everything up.
- Google is the all-consuming superpower on the Internet; soon everything will be owned by them.
Totally engrossing, using up all of one's time and energy.
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that's been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- Brown revealed that his time as London Transport Commissioner has been all-consuming, describing it as "full-on".
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for all-consuming. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA