all but
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 6.27 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Everything except. Typically precedes a noun or noun phrase.
Example Sentences
- "The food is all but finished."
- "A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights. [...] Now the Jedi are all but extinct."
- "I practice nightly, I try to keep ahead / This art of surfacing is all but dead"
- "When the first wave of postwar immigrants arrived in Britain in the 1950s and ’60s, it was a period of rising wages, full employment, an expanding welfare state and strong trade unions. Today, Britain’s manufacturing base has all but disappeared, working-class communities have disintegrated, unions have been neutered and the welfare state has begun to crumble."
- "A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn."
- "The freight market has changed beyond all recognition from when RAIL was first published. Coal, the then-dominant traffic, has all but disappeared. Instead, maritime intermodal flows have shown steady growth."