Word.ws English Dictionary

warts-and-all

warts-and-all is the alternative form of warts and all.

Meaning of warts and all

Adjective

warts and all (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, often hyphenated) Of or pertaining to a description or other depiction which reveals the full range of characteristics of a person or thing, including the shortcomings and imperfections.
    • Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character.1957 October 14, “The Last Days of Freud”, in Time

See all 2 meanings of warts and all

Questions about warts-and-all

What is warts-and-all the alternative form of?
Warts-and-all is the alternative form of warts and all.

Words near warts-and-all in the dictionary

  1. Wartook
  2. wartorn
  3. wartpox
  4. warts
  5. warts and all
  6. warts-and-all
  7. wartsome
  8. wartweed
  9. wartweeds
  10. wartwort
  11. wartworts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: warts-and-all (page history and authors); warts and all (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “warts-and-all.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/warts-and-all. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.