Meaning of only too | Babel Free
Definitions
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very, all too. not-comparable
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to a high degree; very well or very much not-comparable
Examples
“I'll be only too happy to help.”
“I'm only too keen to leave school.”
“In a crisis I am only too well aware that I am always left to find a way out, but that night I felt hardly adequate even to ordinary conversation”
“After some miles of country lanes he reached the high road, and as he turned into it and glanced along its white length, he saw approaching him a speck that turned into a dot and then into a blob, and then into something very familiar; and a double note of warning, only too well known, fell on his delighted ear.”
“Cities were not built to handle this volume of last-mile activity – a fact that firms such as UPS realise only too well.”
“You understand?” “Only too well.” Sudhir said wryly.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.