ALL IN ALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does all in all mean? 

• ALL IN ALL (adverb)
  The adverb ALL IN ALL has 1 sense:

1. with everything considered (and neglecting details)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALL IN ALL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With everything considered (and neglecting details)

Synonyms:

all in all; altogether; on the whole; tout ensemble

Context example:

all in all, it's not so bad

 Context examples 

How I had a grasping, avaricious wish to shut out everybody from her but myself, and to be all in all to her, at that unseasonable time of all times.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With his usual recuperative energy, he went on: "Come. If there be no way open to get in, we must make one. Time is all in all to us now."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All in all, you have a busy November ahead, filled with opportunity, and I bet you can’t wait to begin.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

All in all, the team had a 91 percent success rate in getting the particles ‘teleported’ – which is a very solid result, according to the researchers.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Edmund was all in all.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

So they were all in all to each other, and came and went, quite unconscious of the interest they excited in those about them, who watched with sympathetic eyes the strong sister and the feeble one, always together, as if they felt instinctively that a long separation was not far away.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Not one of us that she's growed up among, not one of us that's lived along with her and had her for their all in all, these many year, will ever look upon her pritty face again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She said she was very well, and did not like to be supposed otherwise; but take it all in all, he was convinced that her present residence could not be comfortable, and therefore could not be salutary for her, and he was growing anxious for her being again at Mansfield, where her own happiness, and his in seeing her, must be so much greater.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Take him for all in all, we ne'er shall—in short, make the acquaintance, probably, of anybody else possessing, at his time of life, the same legs for gaiters, and able to read the same description of print, without spectacles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The days when my mother and I and Peggotty were all in all to one another, and there was no one to come between us, rose up before me so sorrowfully on the road, that I am not sure I was glad to be there—not sure but that I would rather have remained away, and forgotten it in Steerforth's company.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)