in all

Idioms and Phrases

All together, considering everything, as in There are four cars in all , or They won ten games and lost two, doing very well in all . [Late 1300s] Also see all in all .

Example Sentences

His affable tone and squeaky chair make for a rather pleasant experience, all-in-all.

From The Daily Beast

As the topmost branch of the pine points always to the east, so Luck-in-all-moons shall guide us to the sun rising.

From Project Gutenberg

Several people did mention a Murville, who was a business agent, then a swindler, and all-in-all a thoroughly bad fellow.

From Project Gutenberg

Blasphemy rebukes not the godless lie that denies Him as All-in-all, nor does it ascribe to Him all presence, power, and glory.

From Project Gutenberg

He knew God as infinite, and therefore as the All-in-all; and we shall know this truth when we awake in the divine likeness.

From Project Gutenberg

Do you imagine that God is not as good, as perfect, as absolutely all-in-all as your thoughts can imagine?

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Related Words

• absolutely
• altogether
• comprehensively
• effectively
• entirely
• finally
• fully
• perfectly
• quite
• thoroughly
• totally
• ultimately
• unconditionally
• utterly
• wholly