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ALL TOO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does all too mean? 

ALL TOO (adverb)
  The adverb ALL TOO has 1 sense:

1. to a high degreeplay

  Familiarity information: ALL TOO used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALL TOO (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

To a high degree

Synonyms:

all too; only too

Context example:

she is all too ready to accept the job


 Context examples 


But it is all—all too late now.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As of old, nineteen hours of labor a day was all too little to suit him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They were all too soft, dying under the toil, the frost, and starvation.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It smell so like the waters of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought for in the Floridas, and find him all too late.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“But not at all too strong for the facts,” returned Miss Murdstone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All too quickly, far more quickly than he had expected, it happened.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But now it is all too late.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But in the will, that idea had sprung from the sinister suggestion of the man Hyde; it was set there with a purpose all too plain and horrible.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And the rest were all too terrified to reply.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I had now fastened all the hooks, and, taking the knot in my hand, began to pull; but not a ship would stir, for they were all too fast held by their anchors, so that the boldest part of my enterprise remained.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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