all the time

1. 1.

   without respite

   “he plays chess day in and day out”

   Synonymsday in and day out

Questions about all the time

What does all the time mean?

all the time means "without respite".

What is another word for all the time?

Close synonyms include day in and day out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is all the time a common word?

all the time is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.