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ALL THE BETTER

Definition: ALL THE BETTER

ALL THE BETTER

1. Wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: ALL THE BETTER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Content

Interjection: amen; (assent); very well, all the better, so much the better, well and good; it will do, that will do; it cannot be helped.

Improvement

Adjective: improving; Verb: progressive, improved; Verb: better, better off, better for; all the better for; better advised.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: ALL THE BETTER

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Lyrics

All the better just to please you ("Bette Davis Eyes"; performing artist: Kim Carnes)

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

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Use in Literature: ALL THE BETTER

TitleAuthorQuote

Through the Looking-Glass

Carroll, Lewis

It would have been all the better, as it seemed to Alice, if she had got some one else to dress her, she was so dreadfully untidy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: ALL THE BETTER

Expressions using "ALL THE BETTER": all the better for i am all the better for it. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: ALL THE BETTER

Language Translations for "ALL THE BETTER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sa më mirë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

толкова по-добре (so much the better). (various references)

   

French

  

je suis le meilleur pour ça (I am all the better for it). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

annál jobb (least said soonest mended, so much the better, that's nothing to weep about, that's nothing to weep over, the more the better). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tanto meglio. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allay ethay etterbay

   

Portuguese

  

tanto melhor. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cu atât mai bine (so much the better, the sooner the better). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тем лучше (so much the better, sooner the better). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tanto mejor. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

desto bättre. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

daha da iyi (even better, yet better), çok daha iyi (head and shoulders above, heaps better, streets ahead of). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

тим краще (so much the better). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ALL THE BETTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-h-l-l-r-t-t-t"

-2 letters: tetherball.

-4 letters: betatter, ethereal, harebell, hebetate, reelable.

-5 letters: abetter, athlete, battler, beetler, beretta, blather, blatter, bleater, blether, brattle, breathe, halbert, haltere, labeler, leather, relabel, retable, tartlet, tattler, teether, theater, theatre, thereat.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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