Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

all there

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: 6.10 in modern English

Syllables: al-l there
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Mentally competent; not absent-minded or insane.

adj

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, there.

Example Sentences

"Is he all there?"
"I don't think he's all there..."
"I think he's not all there..."
"She's pretty on the ball ... she's definitely all there."
"A suspicion that “he was not all there,” and therefore “one of God’s bairns,” had insured him, during his long orphanage, the food, and clothes, and shelter, necessary for life; but no one had given him love."
"His submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions. Not all there, in fact."

Questions

What does all there mean?: Mentally competent; not absent-minded or insane.

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