Altogether
[ɔːltə'geðə;ɒl-] or [,ɔltə'ɡɛðɚ]
Definition
(adv.) with everything included or counted; 'altogether he earns close to a million dollars'.
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Definition
(adv.) All together; conjointly.
(adv.) Without exception; wholly; completely.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. Wholly, completely, entirely, totally, utterly, thoroughly, throughout, fully, perfectly, IN TOTO, out and out, to the full.[2]. Conjointly, in a body, in a mass, EN MASSE.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Collectively, combined, in_one, totally, entirely, wholly, fully, completely,utterly, thoroughly
ANT:Separately, individually, partially
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Definition
adv. all together: wholly: completely: without exception.
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Examples
- Indeed, I am wrong altogether. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day's sketch to wish to go on. Jane Austen. Emma.
- My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He wished, too, that the officers should be appointed altogether by himself, and not be nominated by the people, as the bill had proposed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She is stouter, too, and altogether improved, continued Miss Rosalind, who was disposed to be very fat. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Altogether they were very beautiful, but I fear that I did not regard them with a particularly appreciative eye on this, my first inspection of them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Altogether, ours was a lively and a picturesque procession, and drew crowded audiences to the balconies wherever we went. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He must be ashamed and disgusted altogether. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I reckoned our coach to be about a square of Westminster-hall, but not altogether so high: however, I cannot be very exact. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The capital of a merchant, for example, is altogether a circulating capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mrs. Weston was very ready to say how attentive and pleasant a companion he made himselfhow much she saw to like in his disposition altogether. Jane Austen. Emma.
- To keep up the conversation, I asked Mr. Vholes if he would like to live altogether in the country. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As for you, Amy, continued Meg, you are altogether too particular and prim. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I praised the fair lady too, and altogether sent him away very happy. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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