Meanings
- idiomaticMentally competent; not absent-minded or insane.
Is he all there?
5 more examples
I don't think he's all there...
I think he's not all there...
She's pretty on the ball ... she's definitely all there.
A suspicion that “he was not all there,” and therefore “one of God’s bairns,” had insured him, during his long orphanage, the food, and clothes, and shelter, necessary for life; but no one had given him love.
1885, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 1, in Jan Vedder's WifeHis submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions. Not all there, in fact.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
Translations
French beubeu, bête à bouffer du foin
- beubeunegative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent
- bête à bouffer du foinnegative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent
- bête à pleurernegative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent
- imbécilenegative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent
Icelandic ekki með öllum mjalla
- ekki með öllum mjallanegative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent
Polish mieć wszystkich w domu, nie mieć wszystkich w domu
- mieć wszystkich w domupositive form, "all there": mentally competent
- nie mieć wszystkich w domunegative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent
Russian не все до́ма /lit: not everyone at home/
- не все до́ма /lit: not everyone at home/ (ne vse dóma)negative form, "not all there": mentally incompetent
Cite this entry
all there. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all%20there
“all there.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all%20there. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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