Meanings
alternative alltime
- not comparableOf all time; unsurpassed up to the present time.
Sales have reached an all-time low, so the business may have to declare bankruptcy.
2 more examples
And the Premier League's all-time top-goalscoring midfielder proved he has not lost the knack of being in the right place at the right time with a trio of clinical finishes.
2011 October 2, Jonathan Jurejko, “Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea”, in BBC SportDuring the 1960s and 1970s, when both the quality of architecture and the appreciation of historic buildings reached an all-time low, British Railways was notorious for replacing good station buildings and canopies with little more than bus shelters, usually in conjunction with de-staffing.
2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 38
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveunsurpassed in some respect up to the present
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Finnish kaikkien aikojen
- kaikkien aikojenof all time
Hungarian minden idők
- minden időkof all time
Spanish vitalicio
- vitalicioof all time
Cite this entry
all-time. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-time
“all-time.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all-time. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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