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for all

for all prepositional phrase: in spite of, despite.

Prepositional phrase

  1. In spite of, despite.
    • For all his protests, he was forced to have a bath.
    • For all that she was of exceptional intellectual enterprise, she had never yet considered these things with unaverted eyes.1909, H. G. Wells, Ann Veronica
  2. (literally) Applying to every element of a set; the universal quantifier ∀.
    • For all x in A, x² is even.
    Synonyms:
    for any, given any, given an arbitrary

Synonyms of for all

  • for any
  • given any
  • given an arbitrary

Questions about for all

What does for all mean?
For all means in spite of, despite.
What part of speech is for all?
For all is a prepositional phrase.

Words near for all in the dictionary

  1. for a song and dance
  2. for a start
  3. for a time
  4. for a while
  5. for Africa
  6. for all
  7. for all intended purposes
  8. for all intense and purposes
  9. for all intense purposes
  10. for all intensive purposes
  11. for all intents and purposes

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