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All Too

Definition: All Too

All Too

Adverb

1. To a high degree; "she is all too ready to accept the job".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: All Too

Synonym: only too (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: All Too

English words defined with "all too": actually, apparentlyby all oddsdecidedly, definitelyedition, emphatically, evidentlymanifestlynoneobviously, only toopatently, plain, plainlyreinsuranceSimple obligation, subterraneanTo run amuckulterior, unquestionablyVehmic. (references)
Specialty definitions using "all too": Abdication, AI-complete, amateur packet radiobuffer overflow, bug fix releaseChristian, Clock, COLD PIG, computer ethics, Contractions, cybercrudDances, Decalogue, Developing countries, Digital Equipment Corporation, directory service, down the watercourse turn, Dying SayingsElvis, executiveFAILURE, FOLLYHEATHEN, Helium Nucelosynthesis, hidden flagIMMODEST, incomplete blocklace card, Leukemic InfiltrationNAPOLEON, Noveloverflow bitPerdrix, toujours Perdrix, plug-and-pray, Pride of the Morningrat dance, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, roadSaturday-night special, Scarabee, SCSI adaptor, SPECmark, squirrelcide, Sturgeon's Lawthree-letter acronym, tope, Turing tar-pitWall, working set, WORMS. (references)

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Modern Usage: All Too

DomainUsage

Screenplays

All too easy. (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

But then I learned, all too well, that a mere reporter like myself can't ever get to the truth in this city it's nearly impossible. (The Big O; writing credit: Masanao Akahoshi; Kei'ichi Hasegawa)

Based on the findings of the report, my conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: All Too

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Agriculture. Women on farms. Induction of much of America's manpower into the armed forces brings increased activity to U.S. farmer's wives, who, like Mrs. Harold Sontag of Maple Park, Illinois, finds the day all too short for the completion of her many c.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: All Too

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

All too often, parents who conduct their own research are overwhelmed by the difficulty in finding and organizing information. (references)

When the itchy red spots of childhood chickenpox disappear and life returns to normal, the battle with the virus that causes chickenpox seems to be won. But for all too many of us this triumph of the body's immune system over the virus that causes chickenpox is only temporary. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: All Too

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope-some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981That price has increased as the military power of our major adversary has grown and its readiness to use that power been made all too evident in Afghanistan.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001You also have to agree that all those differences you just clapped for all too often spark hatred and division even here at home.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: All Too

Expressions using "all too": all too few all too soon. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: All Too

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  all too human

24
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: All Too

Language Translations for "all too"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

allzu (all to, excessively, far to, far too, not any too, over, overly, too). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

túlontúl jól ismer vkit (to know sy all too well), nagyon is jól (all too well). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allay ootay

   

Swedish

  

alltför få (all too few). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zamansız (all too soon, ill timed, inopportune, out of season, unseasonable, untimely), pek erken (all too soon). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: All Too

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-l-l-o-o-t"

-1 letter: allot, atoll.

-2 letters: alto, loot, lota, olla, tall, tola, toll, tool.

-3 letters: all, alt, lat, loo, lot, oat, oot, tao, too.

-4 letters: al, at, la, lo, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-l-l-o-o-t"
 

+1 letter: axolotl, galloot, latosol.

 

+2 letters: axolotls, collator, football, footfall, footwall, galloots, latosols.

 

+3 letters: allocator, allotrope, allotropy, bookstall, collation, collators, collocate, colostral, corollate, faldstool, footballs, footfalls, footwalls, latosolic, polytonal, stoopball, tomatillo, ultracool.

 

+4 letters: algologist, allocation, allocators, allocution, allotropes, allotropic, balloonist, blastocoel, bookstalls, collations, collimator, collocated, collocates, colorectal, faldstools, footballer, lobulation, locational, notionally, optionally, oscillator, osmolality, pollinator, portabello, stoopballs, tomatillos, toroidally, volitional.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: All Too


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6C      54 6F 6F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01010100 01101111 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#32 &#84 &#111 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006C      0054 006F 006F

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3578782548181

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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