Meanings
- not comparableset phrasedurationAlways; constantly; for the complete duration.
The public does not wish to be outraged in this way all the time.
1889 September 11, Mark Twain, “Last Words of Great Men”, in Buffalo Express3 more examples
Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLCI couldn't live without your love Now, I know you′re really mine I gotta have you all the time
1966, Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent, Petula Clark (vocalist), I Couldn't Live Without Your Love, I Couldn't Live Without Your Love (album)The study found that there had been as many patent applications for artificial intelligence since 2013 as there were in all the time since the term AI was first used in the 1950s.
2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2019Synonyms: at all times
- not comparableset phrase; frequency; set phrase; frequencyVery often; frequently.
I have never been this excited about having an album. I play it all the time.
2008 June 26, Joel Stein, “Pirating Axl Rose's Record”, in Time2 more examples
Memories haunt you all the time / I will never leave your mind / Got judgment on your side / You've said bad things, and you've lied
1978, Marvin Gaye, “When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You”, in Here, My DearOur engineer, Nick Sansano, had almost no experience working with electric guitars or rock music, but this bothered no one, and Nick seemed to understand precisely what we were after. When I recently ran into Nick, he told me how much he remembered the vibe of innocence and idealism in those sessions, as well as his visceral reaction to the music. “It’s hard to believe so much time has gone by,” he told me, “because some of those memories live as if it were yesterday.” He said his students at NYU, where he teaches, ask him about Daydream all the time—“and I mean all the time.”
2015, Kim Gordon, chapter 27, in Carrie Thornton, editor, Girl in a Band, New York: Dey st., →ISBN, page 160
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbAlways; constantly; for the complete duration.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbwithout respite
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
An ellipsis of all of the time.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek πάντοτε, πάντα τὸν χρόνον
- πάντοτε (pántote)always
- πάντα τὸν χρόνον (pánta tòn khrónon)always
Arabic على مدار الوقت
- على مدار الوقتalways
Catalan tota l'estona, sempre
- tota l'estonaalways
- semprealways
- tota l'estonafrequently
- a cada momentfrequently
Danish hele tiden, altid
- hele tidenalways
- altidalways
Dutch de hele tijd, de hele tijd
- de hele tijdalways
- de hele tijdfrequently
Finnish koko ajan, koko ajan
- koko ajanalways
- koko ajanfrequently
- alituiseenfrequently
- kaiken aikaafrequently
French tout le temps, tout le temps
- tout le tempsalways
- tout le tempsfrequently
- à longueur de tempsfrequently
German die ganze Ziet, die ganze Zeit
- die ganze Zietalways
- die ganze Zeitfrequently
Hebrew כל הזמן
- כל הזמן (kol hazmán)always
Hungarian egész idő alatt, mindvégig
- egész idő alattalways
- mindvégigalways
- egyre (csak)always
- folytonfrequently
- mindigfrequently
- állandóanfrequently
- minduntalanfrequently
- mindegyrefrequently
- szakadatlanulfrequently
Icelandic allan tímann, einatt
- allan tímannalways
- einattfrequently
Irish ar feadh an ama, i rith an ama
- ar feadh an amaalways
- i rith an amaalways
- ar feadh an amafrequently
- i rith an amafrequently
Italian sempre, spessissimo
- semprealways
- spessissimofrequently
Latvian arvien vēl, visu laiku
- arvien vēlalways
- visu laikualways
Lithuanian visuomet
- visuometalways
Norwegian Bokmål hele tiden, alltid
- hele tidenalways
- alltidalways
- stadig vekkfrequently
- stadigfrequently
- støttfrequently
- jevnt og truttfrequently
Polish bez przerwy, cały czas
- bez przerwyalways
- cały czasalways
- ciąglealways
- co chwilafrequently
- co chwilęfrequently
- co ruszfrequently
Portuguese o tempo inteiro, o tempo todo
- o tempo inteiroalways
- o tempo todoalways
- o tempo inteirofrequently
- o tempo todofrequently
Romanian tot timpul
- tot timpulalways
Russian всё вре́мя, всё вре́мя
- всё вре́мя (vsjo vrémja)always
- всё вре́мя (vsjo vrémja)frequently
- ча́сто (částo)frequently
Scottish Gaelic fad na tìde, fad na tìde
- fad na tìdealways
- fad na tìdefrequently
Spanish todo el tiempo, todo el rato
- todo el tiempoalways
- todo el ratoalways
- en todo momentoalways
- a cada ratofrequently
- a cada segundofrequently
Swedish hela tiden, ständigt
- hela tidenalways
- ständigtalways
- jämtalways
- hela tidenfrequently
- jämtfrequently
- ideligenfrequently
Vietnamese hoài
- hoàifrequently
Yiddish יעדער מאָנטיק און דאָנערשטיק
- יעדער מאָנטיק און דאָנערשטיק (yeder montik un donershtik)frequently
Cite this entry
all the time. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all%20the%20time
“all the time.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all%20the%20time. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “all the time,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all%20the%20time.
Source: all the time on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.