Usually means: Listening attentively, fully engaged now.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. all ears: Merriam-Webster
  2. all ears: Collins English Dictionary
  3. all ears: Wiktionary
  4. all ears: Dictionary.com
  5. all ears: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. all ears: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. all ears: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. all ears: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (all ears)

▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) Listening intently; fully focused.
▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) Awaiting an explanation.

Similar:
all eyes and ears, open-eared, all eyes, hyperattentive, full, bound up, heads-down, rapt, absorbed, engrossing, more...

Opposite:
uninterested, indifferent, apathetic

Phrases:
be all ears, been all ears, being all ears, is all ears, was all ears, more...

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Similar:
all eyes and ears, open-eared, all eyes, hyperattentive, full, bound up, heads-down, rapt, absorbed, engrossing, more...

Opposite:
uninterested, indifferent, apathetic

Phrases:
be all ears, been all ears, being all ears, is all ears, was all ears, were all ears, I'm All Ears, im all ears, all eyes and ears, more...



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