to all intents and purposes

Speech parts

1. to all intents and purposes - Adverb

2. to all intents and purposes - Phrase

Meaning

in every practical sense

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

virtually practically essentially effectively for all practical purposes almost nearly apparently more or less seemingly approaching evidently ostensibly externally outwardly
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Antonyms

completely fully dead quite entirely extensively
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Examples

Whatever you identify with is what you are. If you identify with the physical body, then to all intents and purposes you are the physical body. That traps the Self in the physical plane and causes all the illness - stomach aches, ulcers, and all the rest, of the physical body. Benjamin Creme

Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. Zhuangzi

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

the rest are for all practical purposes useless Source: Internet

Although parts of the constellation technically rise above the horizon to observers between the 49°N and 65°N, stars within a few degrees of the horizon are to all intents and purposes unobservable. Source: Internet

He stayed with Philip for a year from 1942 to 1943.sfn Philip called Richard "my son to all intents and purposes. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

to all intents and purposes

Close letter words and terms

to alarm to all appearance to all appearances to alleviate to allot to allow