Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

to the hilt

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English

Syllables: to the hilt
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Completely, fully, to one's limit.

Example Sentences

"You can't expect him to spare any more money, because he's borrowed up to the hilt from the bank for his new apartment."
"This paradox—that a peaceful European settlement was taking shape even as the two Great Powers of the day were arming themselves to the hilt and preparing for the eventuality of a thermonuclear war—was not so bizarre as it might appear."

Synonyms

to the brim all the way from soup to nuts in excelsis to the backbone to the bone to the core to the fullest to the full to the gills to the gunnels to the hilt

Questions

What does to the hilt mean?: Completely, fully, to one's limit.

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