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[atall]
** English
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*** Adverb
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1. [en] [Indicating degree , quantity or frequency greater than zero] : to the slightest degree, in any way , at any time or in any circumstance.
2. * [II]
3. * 1851 , 吴语: Herman Melville , _吴语: Moby-Dick_ , Basa Sunda: Moby-Dick (1851) US edition/Chapter 13 :
4. *: He did not seem to think that he AT ALL deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies.
5. * 1865 , 吴语: Lewis Carroll , _吴语: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ , Basa Sunda: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Chapter 11 :
6. *: The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did it), he did not look AT ALL comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming.
7. * [en]
**** Usage notes
- In idiomatic sense, almost always used in negative polarity sentences, questions, and conditionals or hypotheticals, as opposed to plain affirmative statements. Structures such as _nothing at all_ , '' not … any at all {"content": "''", "type": "DELIM", "wikinode": "WikiDelimNode"} , etc. are common.
- May be used to make an offer sound more polite without any particular meaning, e.g. "Would you like some coffee at all?"
**** Derived terms
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**** Translations
[to the slightest degree, in any way]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [with negatives] [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] [informal]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [in a negative sentence] [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la] , [la] [not at all]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Manx: [gv]
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- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
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- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
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