only too
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.73 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
very, all too.
Example Sentences
- "I'll be only too happy to help."
- "I'm only too keen to leave school."
- "In a crisis I am only too well aware that I am always left to find a way out, but that night I felt hardly adequate even to ordinary conversation"
- "After some miles of country lanes he reached the high road, and as he turned into it and glanced along its white length, he saw approaching him a speck that turned into a dot and then into a blob, and then into something very familiar; and a double note of warning, only too well known, fell on his delighted ear."
- "Cities were not built to handle this volume of last-mile activity – a fact that firms such as UPS realise only too well."
- "You understand?” “Only too well.” Sudhir said wryly."