Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Entirely; completely; utterly.
- adverb With all included or counted; all told.
- adverb On the whole; with everything considered.
- noun A state of nudity. Often used with the:
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wholly; entirely; completely; quite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun informal nakedness; -- used mostly in the phrase “in the
altogether ”. - adverb obsolete All together; conjointly.
- adverb Without exception; wholly; completely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Without
exception ;wholly ;completely . - adverb On the whole; with everything considered.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun informal terms for nakedness
- adverb to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
- adverb with everything considered (and neglecting details)
- adverb with everything included or counted
Etymologies
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Examples
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Locke, in particular, ruined the term altogether in English philosophical literature, where it has ceased to possess any recognized definite meaning.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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I'm blessed if I can make it out -- he's dropped the title altogether, and now calls himself _Mister_ -- I've forgotten for the moment the rest of it, but it is an English name.
The Port of Missing Men Meredith Nicholson 1906
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It may be affirmed that the writers of the age of Louis XIV would not have used these expressions: they would never have thought of using the word "equality" without applying it to some particular object; and they would rather have renounced the term altogether than have consented to make a living personage of it.
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Shrinking from the term altogether is not what our educational system should be doing.
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Shrinking from the term altogether is not what our educational system should be doing.
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Shrinking from the term altogether is not what our educational system should be doing.
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Shrinking from the term altogether is not what our educational system should be doing.
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Asthma is unlikely to be a single disease, so we should abolish the term altogether, states an Edito ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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So erase those, and keep your eye out for another label altogether, one that we can put just a touch more trust into.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Jaymi Heimbuch, Planet Green 2010
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So erase those, and keep your eye out for another label altogether, one that we can put just a touch more trust into.
valse commented on the word altogether
Synonym: nude, as in the expression "in the altogether"
May 20, 2007
john commented on the word altogether
“Mr. Hepenstrick, 54, is an architect who loves to hike in the altogether.�?
The New York Times, In Thin Air of the Alps, Swiss Secrecy Is Vanishing, by John Tagliabue, March 16, 2009
March 18, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word altogether
Usage on Himself in the altogether.
January 20, 2010
zc0000 commented on the word altogether
Therefore, because the CoOrds class default constructor initializes all data members to zero, it can be removed altogether without changing how the class works.
April 7, 2010
bilby commented on the word altogether
Comments in English please.
April 7, 2010