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Meaning of out and out | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

Completely; thoroughly.

dated, not-comparable

Examples

“1921, Bernadotte Perrin (translator), "Tiberius and Caius Gracchus", Plutarch's Lives, Loeb Classics However, he soon saw that the senate was hostile to him out and out, and that the good will of Fannius towards him had lost his edge, and therefore again began to attach the multitude to himself by other laws […]”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

out back out loud out of context out of hand out of pocket out of square