inclusive
including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used after the noun): from May to August inclusive.
including a great deal, or encompassing everything concerned; comprehensive: an inclusive art form;an inclusive fee.
enclosing; embracing: an inclusive fence.
aiming to include and integrate all people and groups in activities, organizations, political processes, etc., especially those who are disadvantaged, have suffered discrimination, or are living with disabilities: inclusive hiring practices;inclusive playgrounds.
relating to or being language or terminology that does not exclude a particular group of people and that avoids bias, stereotypes, etc.: the use of singular “they” as an inclusive, gender-neutral pronoun.
relating to or being educational practices in which students with physical or mental disabilities are taught in regular classrooms and provided with certain accommodations.
Grammar. (of the first person plural) including the person or persons spoken to, as we in Shall we dance?: Compare exclusive (def. 12).
Idioms about inclusive
inclusive of, including; also taking into account: Europe, inclusive of the British Isles, is negotiating new trade agreements.
Origin of inclusive
1Other words for inclusive
2 | overall, general, all-embracing, all-encompassing, 3 |
Other words from inclusive
- in·clu·sive·ly, adverb
- in·clu·sive·ness, noun
- in·clu·siv·i·ty [in-kloo-siv-i-tee], /ɪnˌkluˈsɪv ɪ ti/, noun
- non·in·clu·sive, adjective
- non·in·clu·sive·ly, adverb
- qua·si-in·clu·sive, adjective
- qua·si-in·clu·sive·ly, adverb
- su·per·in·clu·sive, adjective
- su·per·in·clu·sive·ly, adverb
- un·in·clu·sive, adjective
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How to use inclusive in a sentence
With this new project, she hopes that delving into topics that might seem taboo will help make both of those worlds more inclusive.
A New Podcast Explores Sex in the Great Outdoors | Heather Hansman | February 12, 2021 | Outside OnlineRutter and Foley see their campaign as part of a larger effort to make birding more inclusive.
Inside the Movement to Abolish Colonialist Bird Names | Nathalie Alonso | February 12, 2021 | Outside OnlineThe neither-nor quality of this period is somehow inclusive.
Specifically, Virtue asked for input on a DE&I vocabulary guide, an inclusive creative best practices document and a DE&I red flag language guide that it had adapted from Vice-owned publication Refinery29.
Media Briefing: Media companies’ DE&I follow-throughs fall short | Tim Peterson | February 4, 2021 | DigidayTwo LGBTQ-inclusive films, The Life Ahead and Two Of Us, were nominated for Best Picture.
Nominees (and 2 winners) for 2021 Golden Globes announced | Troy Masters | February 3, 2021 | Washington Blade
Triton prices the 1000/3 LP at a cool $3.15 million—inclusive of pilot training.
The Most Exciting New Hotels, Restaurants, and Submarines of 2014 | Charlie Gilbert | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe is a lawyer for AIDS-Free World, which pushes for more active and gay-inclusive policies to combat HIV.
How Maurice Tomlinson Was Outed in Jamaica—and Forced Into Exile | Jay Michaelson | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIts 8-megapixel camera, inclusive of true-tone and dual-LED f/2.2 aperture flashes, features optical image stabilization.
But IBC is also a fair bit more inclusive in its definition of war casualties.
ISIS Fighters Are Killing Faster than Statisticians Can Count | Peter Schwartzstein | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Institute for inclusive Security commissioned her to write this article.
Amid Unrest, Afghan Women Push For Role in Peace Process | Molly Raskin | October 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKeel outside garboard strake, inclusive of thickness of keelband, (p. 151) if any, shall not exceed in depth 1½ in.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.In every other department of life they are apparently regarded as inferior or inclusive beings.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. SchoolcraftIn the conference and prayer-room, the native teachers use the inclusive pronominal form of Father, altogether.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. SchoolcraftThe following is the value in dollars of the imports and exports of the island from 1870 to 1874, inclusive.
History of Prince Edward Island | Duncan CampbellHis sphere of operations he plainly conceives to be from Malta, eastward, to Syria inclusive.
The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2) | A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
British Dictionary definitions for inclusive
/ (ɪnˈkluːsɪv) /
(postpositive foll by of) considered together (with): capital inclusive of profit
(postpositive) including the limits specified: Monday to Friday inclusive is five days
comprehensive
not excluding any particular groups of people: an inclusive society
logic (of a disjunction) true if at least one of its component propositions is true: Compare exclusive (def. 10)
Derived forms of inclusive
- inclusively, adverb
- inclusiveness, noun
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