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above all

Definitions

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  • adverb Of prime importance; before anything else; especially.

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  • adverb above and beyond all other consideration
  • adverb taking everything together

Etymologies

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From Middle English. Compare Dutch bovenal ("above all").

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synonyms (23)

Words with the same meaning

  1. a fortiori
  2. all the more
  3. chiefly
  4. dominantly
  5. especially
  6. even
  7. ever so
  8. first of all
  9. in chief
  10. in the main
  11. indeed
  12. mainly
  13. more than ever
  14. mostly
  15. never so
  16. no end
  17. particularly
  18. peculiarly
  19. predominantly
  20. primarily
  21. principally
  22. still more
  23. yea

cross-references (2)

Cross-references

  1. first and foremost
  2. in the first place

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