in spades

1. 1.

   without question and beyond doubt

   “it was decidedly too expensive”

   “she told him off in spades”

   “by all odds they should win”

   Synonymsdecidedlyunquestionablyemphaticallydefinitelyby all odds

Questions about in spades

What does in spades mean?

in spades means "without question and beyond doubt".

What is another word for in spades?

Close synonyms include decidedly, unquestionably, emphatically, definitely, by all odds. 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 in spades a common word?

in spades 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.