Difference between All-embracing and Broad

What is the difference between All-embracing and Broad?

All-embracing as an adjective is having a broad scope so as to have universal application while Broad as an adjective is (of a person or object) wide in extent or scope

All-embracing

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having a broad scope so as to have universal application

Broad

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (of a person or object) wide in extent or scopehaving a specified width (e.g. 3 ft broad)strongly regional

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (increasingly obsolescent) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.A colloquial term for a woman or girl.(UK) A channel of water, specifically the bodies of water (not to be confused with the rivers) that make up Norfolk and Suffolk.

Example sentence: A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

We hope you now know whether to use All-embracing or Broad in your sentence.

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