on the whole

Idioms  

1. Considering everything, as in On the whole we enjoyed our vacation, although the hotel was not perfect by any means. [Late 1600s] Also see the synonyms by and large; for the most part.

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Example Sentences

While its Surf Academy centres on surfing and academics, it is also a "development program" meant to focus on the whole person, said the organization's founder and director, American Rhonda Harper, 57.

From Barron's

Unless the results changed their view on the whole energy sector, though, all the buying and selling was mostly a waste of time.

From The Wall Street Journal

Eddie Izzard, the wry, gender-fluid British comedian who came to attention with a stream of observational drollery that picked away at common sense, takes on the whole teeming tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times

Producers wanted to put viewers in the faithfuls' shoes and see if they could spot a traitor - and the viewers were, on the whole, just as clueless as the faithful normally are.

From BBC

“I would say exactly what I said after ‘Liberation Day’ last April when the president imposed tariff levels on the whole world.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• commonly
• consistently
• customarily
• frequently
• generally
• mostly
• naturally
• normally
• occasionally
• often
• ordinarily
• regularly
• routinely
• sometimes