Definition of All the same

1. Adverb. Despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession). "Granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go"


Definition of All the same

1. Adverb. (idiomatic) Anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of All The Same

all singing, all dancing
all sizzle and no steak
all square
all systems go
all talk and no action
all talk and no cider
all that
all that and a bag of chips
all that glitters is not gold
all that jazz
all the best
all the less
all the marbles
all the more
all the rage
all the same (current term)
all the tea in China
all the time
all the way
all the way to Egery and back
all the while
all the world's a stage
all there
all things being equal
all things come to those who wait
all things considered
all thumbs
all to
all to smash
all together

Literary usage of All the same

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"I suppose it's shabby to say it, but it's true all the same : he was a very costly guest, and I wasn't disposed, like Charles the Bold or that other famous ..."

2. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"¡tern, That they ought and must repute, hold and take all the same things for the most Holy, most sure and most certain and infallible words of God. and ..."

3. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1849)
"... it will, I think, thence follow, that either the sinner must have all the same individual particles vitally united to his soul when he is raised, ..."

4. An Exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1890)
"L'" j having all the same expectation, may well be reputed the same Church. And this is the unity of hope. Fifthly, They which are all of one mind, ..."

5. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale (1849)
"men, there was none to stop them ; for with regard to the former they esteemed it all the same whether they worshipped them or not, ..."

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