inclusive

See also: inklusive

English

Etymology

From Middle French inclusif, from Medieval Latin inclūsīvus, from Latin inclūsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkluːsɪv/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

inclusive (comparative more inclusive, superlative most inclusive)

1. Including (almost) everything within its scope.

   Synonym: exhaustive

   an inclusive list of data formats

2. Including the extremes as well as the area between.

   Antonym: exclusive

   numbers 1 to 10 inclusive

3. (linguistics) Of, or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when including the person being addressed.

   Antonym: exclusive

   The pronoun in "If you want, we could go back to my place for coffee" is an inclusive "we".

4. Including or accepting those belonging to a particular group.

   Synonym: inclusionary

   Antonym: exclusionary

   trans-inclusive feminism

Derived terms

• all-inclusive
• gender-inclusive
• inclusive disjunction
• inclusive fitness
• inclusive or
• self-inclusive

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kleh₂w- (0 c, 63 e)

Translations

including (almost) everything within its scope

• Catalan: inclusiu (ca)
• Dutch: inclusief (nl)
• Finnish: kattava (fi)
• French: inclusif (fr)
• Galician: inclusivo
• German: vollständig (de), vollumfänglich (de), allumfassend (de)
• Italian: inclusivo (it)
• Macedonian: вклучителен (vklučitelen)
• Malay: menyeluruh (ms), syumul (ms)
• Maori: kauawhi
• Persian: شامل (fa) (šâmel)
• Portuguese: inclusivo
• Spanish: inclusivo (es)
• Swedish: fullständig (sv), allomfattande (sv), omfattande (sv)

including the extremes as well as the area between

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ..tot en met ..
• Finnish: mukaan lukien (fi)
• Italian: incluso (it) m
• Polish: włącznie (pl)
• Spanish: inclusive (es)

of, or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when including the person being addressed

• French: inclusif (fr)

See also

• Wikipedia describes inclusive counting in Counting

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kly.ziv/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: inclusives

Adjective

inclusive

1. feminine singular of inclusif

Italian

Adjective

inclusive

1. feminine plural of inclusivo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.kluˈzi.vi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.kluˈzi.vi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.kluˈzi.ve/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.kluˈzi.vɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.kluˈzi.vɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.kluˈzi.bɨ/ [ĩ.kluˈzi.βɨ]

• Hyphenation: in‧clu‧si‧ve

Adverb

inclusive

1. also (in addition)

   Synonym: também

2. even (indicating an extreme example of the case mentioned)

   Synonyms: até, até mesmo

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inkluˈsibe/ [ĩŋ.kluˈsi.β̞e]
• Rhymes: -ibe
• Syllabification: in‧clu‧si‧ve

Adverb

inclusive

1. including, even

Related terms

• incluido
• incluir
• inclusión
• inclusivamente
• incluso

 

Further reading

• “inclusive”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014