ONLY TOO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does only too mean? 

• ONLY TOO (adverb)
  The adverb ONLY TOO has 1 sense:

1. to a high degree

  Familiarity information: ONLY TOO used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONLY TOO (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a high degree

Synonyms:

all too; only too

Context example:

she is all too ready to accept the job

 Context examples 

“If I may umbly make the remark,” said Uriah Heep, with a writhe, “I fully agree with Miss Betsey Trotwood, and should be only too appy if Miss Agnes was a partner.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The thumb of circumstance had done its work only too well.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

My Lord, We are at all times only too happy to meet your wishes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“There, there, Berks, that’s all right!” cried my uncle, only too anxious to smooth things over and to prevent a quarrel at the outset of the evening.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“They are only too clear,” I answered with conviction.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was, alas, only too easy to do.

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

No, my fairy: but I am only too thankful to hear and feel you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her care and attention could not be questioned; they were, in fact, only too great.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He was only too good to everybody.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He remained with them some time, and was only too agreeable for Catherine to be contented when he went away.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)