all that

adverb

: to an indicated or suggested extent or degree : so
didn't take his threats all that seriously

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And the house witnessed all that. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025 Forget all that, did someone say a Polestar with a Volvo badge? New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025 Leaving out Gabe Gordon’s car crash, there’s an underlying romance to the images across the board (hence all that pink). Ari Stark, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025 Overall, however, America’s richest people are still not all that generous, relatively speaking. Ella Malmgren, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for all that

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of all that was in 1945

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“All that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20that. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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