AT ALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at all mean? 

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

1. in the slightest degree or in any respect

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT ALL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the slightest degree or in any respect

Synonyms:

at all; in the least; the least bit

Context example:

was not in the least unfriendly

 Context examples 

Sometimes he tripped on the rope, or stumbled, and at all times he was awkward, betraying a weariness so great that the sled now and again ran upon his heels.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was indeed a twisted smile, for it was on the left side only, the facial muscles of the right side moving not at all.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And then, as a second thought, why should she come at all?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not at all, my boy. You have only got your deserts.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I observed that books were piled on the floor at all other points, but that one bookcase was left clear.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For that matter, he did not think at all.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Do not interrupt him; he cannot go back, and maybe could not proceed at all if once he lost the thread of his thought.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I don't love you at all, do I?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His reason was unseated by the blind yearning of the flesh to exist and move, at all hazards to move, to continue to move, for movement was the expression of its existence.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If I can't have it as I like, I don't care to have it at all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)