as it gets
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.23 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
As it is possible to be.
Example Sentences
- "The formal is about 95 per cent hype and hysteria, and about 5 per cent actual formal, and the pre-formal gathering of parents and kids is about as hypey and hysterical as it gets."
- "There is no crying in space, but Monday was perhaps as close as it gets to a blubberfest in space helmets."
- "When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets."
- "Yet, the more real this independence became – the higher grew its cost.Today that cost is as high as it gets."
- "So, we’re going to have the lowest — just about the lowest rate. It will be — the 21 is on the low side worldwide; the 15 is about as low as it gets, and by far the lowest of a large country — a large, you know, rich, powerful country — by far, not even a contest."