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all the same

all the same adjective: making no significant difference.

Adjective

all the same (not comparable)

  1. Making no significant difference.
    • Near-synonym: all one
    • It's all the same to me if you want to leave early.
    Synonyms:
    all one
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, same.
    • His speeches are all the same.

Adverb

all the same (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless.
    • He knew it was risky. He did it all the same.
    • It's sleeting. All the same, I'll take the dog out.

all the same meaning in Malayalam

all the same in Malayalam

despite that, in spite of everything, nevertheless
അപ്രകാരമാണെങ്കിലും, അങ്ങനെ ആയിരുന്നിട്ടും, എന്നുവരുകിലും, അങ്ങനെയാണെങ്കിലും, എന്നിട്ടും, അങ്ങനെയായിട്ടും
of no importance, immaterial, of no consequence
അപ്രധാനമായ, അസംഗതമായ, അപ്രസക്തമായ, അഗണനീയ, അഗണ്യമായ, പ്രാധാന്യമില്ലാത്ത

Examples of all the same in a sentence

  • Certainly, many women have found me interesting. All the same, the women closest to me are invariably deeply dissatisfied.
  • So GCN calls and I'm thinking — what can I say in the pages of an anti-racist, but all the same White newspaper?1989 February 5, Colin Robinson, “You Dared Us To Dream That We Are Worth Wanting Each Other”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29...
  • It's a distant solar system / I tried to phone but they don't list 'em / So I asked her for a number all the same1996, “Cosmic Girl”, in Travelling Without Moving, performed by Jamiroquai:

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Questions about all the same

What does all the same mean?
All the same means making no significant difference.
What is all the same in Malayalam?
All the same in Malayalam is അപ്രകാരമാണെങ്കിലും, അങ്ങനെ ആയിരുന്നിട്ടും, എന്നുവരുകിലും. See All the same meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use all the same in a sentence?
Certainly, many women have found me interesting. All the same, the women closest to me are invariably deeply dissatisfied.
What part of speech is all the same?
All the same can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near all the same in the dictionary

  1. all the marbles
  2. all the money in the world
  3. all the more
  4. all the rage
  5. all the rave
  6. all the same
  7. all the sudden
  8. all the tea in China
  9. all the time
  10. all the way
  11. all the way to Egery and back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: all the same (page history and authors); all the same (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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