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all

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adjective

all

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pronoun

as in everyone
every person a joyous holiday to one and all!

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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How is the word all distinct from other similar adjectives?

Some common synonyms of all are entire, total, and whole. While all these words mean "including everything or everyone without exception," all may equal whole, entire, or total.

all proceeds go to charity

When might entire be a better fit than all?

The synonyms entire and all are sometimes interchangeable, but entire may suggest a state of completeness or perfection to which nothing can be added.

the entire population was wiped out

When could total be used to replace all?

In some situations, the words total and all are roughly equivalent. However, total implies that everything has been counted, weighed, measured, or considered.

the total number of people present

Where would whole be a reasonable alternative to all?

While in some cases nearly identical to all, whole implies that nothing has been omitted, ignored, abated, or taken away.

read the whole book

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of all
Adverb
Surprisingly, instead of freezing in a single step, the water underwent multiple freeze–melt cycles, all within the pressure zone where ice VI typically forms. Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025 The city said the suit followed months of attempts to obtain voluntary compliance in response to numerous public records requests for Blain’s messages on private email accounts, text messaging and other applications, which are all subject to disclosure if discussing city business. Susan Gill Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
The tambourine-wielding doll wears a witchy, all-black look lifted from the cover of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 masterwork. Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025 The Chargers’ all-gold uniforms resembled nothing more than those of the Savannah Bananas, baseball’s version of basketball’s Harlem Globetrotters. Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for all
Recent Examples of Synonyms for all
Adverb
  • The experiment discovered that AI could fulfill this role quite well.
    François Candelon, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The maze is quite scary, including an It-style clown with a chainsaw, chainsaw-wielding doctors in scrubs, and Beryl at the center of it all as the town’s biggest cultural claim to fame, the Headless Horseman.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • California would drop two seats and Illinois and New York would each lose one.
    Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The House and Senate each passed the BBB by razor thin margins with most votes on party lines.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • And while in an era where productivity and efficiency are more top of mind than ever, Dimon insists that giving undivided attention is still the ultimate sign of respect.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In the arms race for audience’s undivided attention, both single-player and competitive games have become their own self-perpetuating ecosystems.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • To buy the Eight Sleep is to buy fully, with your whole body, into the idea that the future of sleep is technological.
    Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Quadcopter and multirotor drones Draganfly develops quadcopter and multirotor drones that are easy to use, quick to deploy, and fully calibrated at the company’s manufacturing facilities.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This entire swap would have been a disaster of massive proportions had those two not remained chained together.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Hawkins has portrayed Atwater throughout the show’s entire run.
    Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The 22-year-old Australian influencer grew up in the 2010s era makeup YouTubers — when NikkieTutorials, Jaclyn Hill and Laura Lee were the reigning queens of social media — and was completely taken by their creative looks.
    Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Harmlessly wandering about the village, belly and breasts exposed—at times completely naked—Pagli discomforts established codes of etiquette.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Never got in trouble at all his whole life.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The version of events found primarily in the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric epics that narrate the war and its aftermath, respectively, serves as a template for how many people continue to imagine war, honor, heroism, and a whole set of related issues to this day.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The 27-yard dart, perfectly thrown to the goal line, unlocked a tie at 27 on the first play of the fourth quarter.
    Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • For makeup, Sweeney’s hot pink eyeliner perfectly complemented her pastel gown.
    Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2025

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“All.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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