adjective
- including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- including a great deal, or encompassing everything concerned; comprehensive: an inclusive art form; an inclusive fee.
- enclosing; embracing: an inclusive fence.
- Grammar. (of the first person plural) including the person or persons spoken to, as we in Shall we dance?Compare exclusive(def 12).
- inclusive of, including; also taking into account: Europe, inclusive of the British Isles, is negotiating new trade agreements.
adjective
- (postpositive foll by of) considered together (with)capital inclusive of profit
- (postpositive) including the limits specifiedMonday to Friday inclusive is five days
- comprehensive
- not excluding any particular groups of peoplean inclusive society
- logic (of a disjunction) true if at least one of its component propositions is trueCompare exclusive (def. 10)
mid-15c., from Medieval Latin inclusivus, from Latin inclus-, past participle stem of includere (see include). Related: Inclusively; inclusiveness.