Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

and all

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: 6.47 in modern English

Syllables: and all
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Including every object, attribute, or process associated with preceding item or series of items.

adv

Used to suggest certain unstated relevant implications of what has been stated.

Informal

adv

Used to add emphasis.

adv

As well; in addition.

British usage; Informal

Example Sentences

"He ate the whole fish, bones and all."
"The turtles saw them [Portuguese men-of-war], approached them from the front, then shut their eyes so they were completely carapaced and ate them filaments and all."
"Now proper French tradition requires that when you eat the ortolan, you drape a napkin over your head and consume the bird in one bite, beak, bones and all."
"The facts of the accident, however, are too ambiguous to reek of malice or recklessness. And the drivers involved, flaws and all, are hardly demons."
"We had six large trees ripped from the ground, roots and all. A firefighter told me that the wind hit 110 mph in West U."
"What with you saying he was sick and all, I figured neither of you were coming."

Usage

Informal
British usage

Inflected Forms

an all (alternative, informal) n'all (alternative, informal) anaw (alternative, informal)

Phrases

one and all still and all Uncle Tom Cobley and all warts and all

Synonyms

and all that and that and stuff and so on et cetera

Questions

What does and all mean?: Including every object, attribute, or process associated with preceding item or series of items.

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