at any rate

Speech parts

1. at any rate - Adverb

2. at any rate - Phrase

Meaning

used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement

if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

in any event anyhow anyway at least anyways in any case leastways leastwise at all events however nevertheless but still although even
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Antonyms

consequently wherefore thence then thus therefore
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Examples

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at. Robert Frost

The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut. Bion of Borysthenes

Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life. G. E. M. Anscombe

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them. Northrop Frye

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Oscar Wilde

Words in the phrase

at any rate

Close letter words and terms

at any one time at any place at any point at any time at anytime at arm's end