for all intents and purposes

Speech parts

1. for all intents and purposes - Adverb

2. for all intents and purposes - Phrase

Meaning

in every practical sense

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

virtually practically silently operatively essentially effectively in general for the most part to all intents and purposes tacitly in effect in essence for all practical purposes

Antonyms

entirely extensively totally altogether wholly utterly
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Examples

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen. Jerry Saltz

to all intents and purposes the case is closed Source: Internet

the rest are for all practical purposes useless Source: Internet

For all intents and purposes, is a “meat-and-potatoes” tactics game. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

for all intents and purposes

Close letter words and terms

for all intense and purposes for all intense purposes for all intensive purposes for all intrinsic purposes for all it's worth for all millennia