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at all

1. to any degree. Some plants do not grow at all in that climate. Did she ever hear from Linda at all?

Usage notes: also used in the forms any at all any amount whatever and the negative (not) much at all not to any great degree: The problem wasn't getting good health care but getting any at all. I never knew much at all about fine art.

2. under any conditions. She would not have been happy there at all.

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"How quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not at all as I ran," thought Prince Andrew- "not as we ran, shouting and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds glide across that lofty infinite sky War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context "I don't look down on it at all," said Konstantin Levin timidly. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context Moncharmin should describe the Opera ghost's behavior at such length in the first part of the book and hardly mention it at all in the second. The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context More results

References in classic literature

"How quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not at all as I ran," thought Prince Andrew- "not as we ran, shouting and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds glide across that lofty infinite sky

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

"I don't look down on it at all," said Konstantin Levin timidly.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Moncharmin should describe the Opera ghost's behavior at such length in the first part of the book and hardly mention it at all in the second.

The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context

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