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at all (prep.)

"in any way," mid-14c., originally used only affirmatively (as in I Samuel xx.6 in KJV: "If thy father at all misse me"); now it is overwhelmingly used only in the negative or in interrogatory expressions, formerly also in literary attempts at Irish dialect.

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Definitions of at all from WordNet

at all (adv.)
in the slightest degree or in any respect;
Are you at all interested? No, not at all
Synonyms: in the least / the least bit
From wordnet.princeton.edu