en masse

[ahn mas, en, ahn mas] / ɑn ˈmæs, ɛn, ɑ̃ ˈmas /

ADJECTIVE

all at once

Synonyms

STRONGEST

altogether

WEAK

all in all all together as a body as a group as a whole as one bodily by and large ensemble generally in a body in a group in a mass jointly on the whole together

Antonyms

WEAK

one at a time singly

ADVERB

all together

Synonyms

WEAK

all at once as a body as a group as a whole as one collectively communally cooperatively en bloc ensemble in a group in chorus in unison jointly together unanimously unitedly wholly with one voice

Example Sentences

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Pro scouts were out en masse to see Orange Lutheran pitcher Cooper Sides, whose fastball touched 95 mph.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

But civilians are turning en masse to bitcoin, the world's leading cryptocurrency, which can be withdrawn from platforms and stored in personal wallets, beyond the authorities' reach.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The company’s thesis is that AI agents will buy Microsoft seats en masse, and that its Fabric data analytics platform gives it an additional moat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

“If AI is eliminating tech jobs en masse, software engineering jobs should be crashing as AI is particularly good at writing code,” Kennedy wrote in an email prior to the release.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 6, 2026

At other times the most vocal experts suddenly agree en masse that the old wisdom was wrong and that the new wisdom is, for a little while at least, irrefutably right.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

en masse

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