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altogether
[ awl-tuh-geth-er, awl-tuh-geth-er ]
adverb
altogether fitting.
Synonyms: absolutely, utterly, totally
- with all or everything included:
The debt amounted altogether to twenty dollars.
- with everything considered; on the whole:
Altogether, I'm glad it's over.
altogether
/ ˌɔːltəˈɡɛðə; ˈɔːltəˌɡɛðə /
adverb
- with everything included
altogether he owed me sixty pounds
- completely; utterly; totally
he was altogether mad
- on the whole
altogether it was a very good party
noun
- in the altogether informal.naked
Confusables Note
Word History and Origins
Origin of altogether1
Idioms and Phrases
- in the altogether, Informal. nude ( def 1 ):
When the phone rang she had just stepped out of the bathtub and was in the altogether.
Example Sentences
For parents everywhere, screen time has now taken on a different meaning altogether.
On April 30, California suspended its polio vaccination program altogether, and by May 7 all polio vaccinations had been paused for a week by recommendation of the surgeon general.
So we have between 100 and 200,000, and we altogether have done a very good job.
Perhaps the last company to do so was Castlight Health in 2014, which subsequently lost over 95% of its value, but most prior examples occurred during the Internet bubble in 1999 and 2000 and ended up disappearing altogether.
Coronavirus has denied brands the ability to plan, and forced some to pivot altogether and reinvent themselves.
Still other people have moved away from the word “diet” altogether.
Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.
Some pro-life groups worry that they discourage women from staying pregnant altogether.
But if you ask leftists what Cuba is famous for they will usually say something altogether different: healthcare and education.
The list of banned items from the BBFC seems altogether ridiculous and excessive.
The possibilities of certain branches of teaching have been altogether revolutionized by the cinematograph.
He was one of the founders of Andover theological seminary, and contributed altogether about $125,000 to that institution.
The pipe has a modern look and is altogether unlike those found by the English in use among the Indians in Virginia.
Broadly speaking, the new money will be altogether too good to meet this particular need.
They spoke like this because they are accustomed to abandon altogether those whom they have once judged incurable.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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