All overarching synonyms

adjective overarching

• all-embracing — Something that is all-embracing includes or affects everyone or everything.
• all-encompassing — all-embracing.
• main — chief in size, extent, or importance; principal; leading: the company's main office; the main features of a plan.
• predominant — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
• principal — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
• primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
• central — Something that is central is in the middle of a place or area.
• supreme — Also called sauce suprême. a velouté made with a rich chicken stock.
• key — a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
• encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
• overall — overalls, (used with a plural verb) loose, sturdy trousers, usually with a bib or biblike piece to which shoulder straps are attached, originally worn over other trousers to protect them, as by factory workers or farmers. long waterproof leggings.
• throughout — in or to every part of; everywhere in: They searched throughout the house.
• underlying — lying or situated beneath, as a substratum.
• including — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
• ambient — The ambient temperature is the temperature of the air above the ground in a particular place.
• encircling — Enclosing, skirting.
• enveloping — Present participle of envelop.
• surrounding — something that surrounds, as the area, border, etc., around an object or central space: a tile surround for the shower stall.