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Definition: ALL THE BETTER |
ALL THE BETTER1. Wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference. |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
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. |
| 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 tanto melhor. (various references) cu atât mai bine (so much the better, the sooner the better). (various references) тем лучше (so much the better, sooner the better). (various references) tanto mejor. (various references) desto bättre. (various references) daha da iyi (even better, yet better), çok daha iyi (head and shoulders above, heaps better, streets ahead of). (various references) тим краще (so much the better). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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