to the hilt

1. 1.

   in full

   “you are in this to the hilt”

   Synonymsto the limit

Questions about to the hilt

What does to the hilt mean?

to the hilt means "in full".

What is another word for to the hilt?

Close synonyms include to the limit. 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 to the hilt a common word?

to the hilt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.