Usually means: Complete commitment or total failure.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word all-or-nothing:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. all-or-nothing: Merriam-Webster
  2. all-or-nothing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. all-or-nothing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. all-or-nothing: Vocabulary.com
  5. all-or-nothing: Wiktionary
  6. all-or-nothing: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. all-or-nothing: Dictionary.com
  8. all-or-nothing: FreeDictionary.org
  9. all-or-nothing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. all-or-nothing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. all-or-nothing: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. all-or-nothing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Being or relating to a situation where a dichotomy (a binary state) pertains: either of two poles is instantiated, with no intermediate state (e.g., a mixture or syncretism) being possible or being permitted.
▸ adjective:  Being or relating to a project that will either succeed completely or fail completely.

Similar:
do-or-die, full-on, outright, full on, life-or-death, out-and-out, full out, 100 percent, all-out, absolute, more...

Opposite:
partial, incremental, gradual, flexible, nuanced

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Similar:
do-or-die, full-on, outright, full on, life-or-death, out-and-out, full out, 100 percent, all-out, absolute, more...

Opposite:
partial, incremental, gradual, flexible, nuanced



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