general-purpose

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

General
abstract
abstraction
abstractly
across-the-board
all-rounder
broad
by and largeidiom
chiefly
coarse-grained
essence
general
general consensus
literally
nomothetic
non-personal
on the wholeidiom
overall
portmanteau
sense
whole

Examples of all-purpose

all-purpose
We have never quite settled on a name for this familiar keyboard manner of the time; 'galant' is far too all-purpose.
But any general, all-purpose theory of toleration is unlikely to be forthcoming anytime soon.
In terms of, with terms generalized to create a vague all-purpose connective, is currently popular, and frequently criticized.
This fact means, however, that very few i-words are created as generic or all-purpose labels or descriptors, a difference from how e- is frequently used.
Nonetheless, the most adequate all-purpose assurance of lack of initial biases between groups is randomization.
On the rare occasions when that dubious virtue is called for, 'impartial' will do as an all-purpose word.
It is the all-purpose other of every aesthetic production that wants to be taken seriously.
Varieties that can be used for all three are considered to be 'all-purpose' and are highly valued by the growers for their versatility and marketability.
Besides approximation and code switching, substitution processes underlie a third problem-solving device as well-the use of all-purpose-words.
This disassociation between the relative salience of objects and relations during mapping versus during retrieval cannot be accommodated with an all-purpose salience assignment.
The idea is that an older generation of speakers still uses the ancestral language as an all-purpose language, but also as an in-group secret language.
Any explanation of mechanisation must stress the importance of the introduction, in 1930, of the small combine-harvester operated by power take-off from an all-purpose tractor.
The text of the offertory is an all-purpose one, suitable for almost any occasion.
Visually it was disappointing, with sets as hideous as the costumes, charmless polystyrene blocks serving as all-purpose props for the huge but under-directed cast.
The music it now intones might be described as a kind of all-purpose shout.
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