altogether
- wholly; entirely; completely; quite: altogether fitting.
- 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.
- in the altogether, Informal. nude: When the phone rang she had just stepped out of the bathtub and was in the altogether.
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generally, absolutely, thoroughly, wholly, utterly, fully, perfectly, totally, quite, all, well, bodily, collectivelyExamples from the Web for altogether
Contemporary Examples of altogether
Still other people have moved away from the word “diet” altogether.
First, bubonic (rhymes with pneumonic but is altogether different) is a local infection sequestered in a lymph node.
“Sixty-five years altogether,” she pointed out with a laugh.
So, just a week into a new pack of Microgestin, I stop taking them altogether.
Altogether, more than 5,000 energy-related companies call Houston home.
Historical Examples of altogether
There was a scar on one cheek, and, altogether, he was not very prepossessing in his appearance.
Brave and BoldHoratio Alger
Still the country was much improved, and not altogether unknown.
Explorations in AustraliaJohn Forrest
The natives met with were friendly, but to us altogether unintelligible.
Explorations in AustraliaJohn Forrest
She was thus extremely unreasonable and altogether charming.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
Perhaps the quiet of his boy had not been altogether the quiet of cowardice.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
altogether
- with everything includedaltogether he owed me sixty pounds
- completely; utterly; totallyhe was altogether mad
- on the wholealtogether it was a very good party
- in the altogether informal naked