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total
[ toht-l ]
adjective
- constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole:
the total expenditure.
Synonyms: complete
- of or relating to the whole of something:
the total effect of a play.
- complete in extent or degree; absolute; unqualified; utter:
a total failure.
- involving all aspects, elements, participants, resources, etc.; unqualified; all-out:
total war.
noun
verb (used with object)
- to bring to a total; add up.
- to reach a total of; amount to.
- Slang. to wreck or demolish completely:
He totaled his new car in the accident.
verb (used without object)
- to amount (often followed by to ).
total
/ ˈtəʊtəl /
noun
- the whole, esp regarded as the complete sum of a number of parts
adjective
- complete; absolute
a total eclipse
the evening was a total failure
- prenominal being or related to a total
the total number of passengers
verb
- whenintr, sometimes foll by to to amount
to total six pounds
- tr to add up
to total a list of prices
- slang.tr to kill or badly injure (someone)
- tr to damage (a vehicle) beyond repair
Derived Forms
- ˈtotally, adverb
Other Words From
- quasi-total adjective
- quasi-total·ly adverb
- re·total verb (used with object) retotaled retotaling or (especially British) retotalled retotalling noun
- super·total noun
- un·totaled adjective
- un·totalled adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of total1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Certainly, she seems to command near-total devotion among her clients.
Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.
Former Gov. Jimmy Carter entered the 1976 Presidential campaign as a more or less total unknown.
He advocates a secular regime with a total separation of religion form the government.
More than 750 prisoners have been detained in total over the past 13 years, and about 2,100 people work there.
Besides these, twenty thousand Indians are under the care of secular priests—making a total of two hundred and five thousand.
Quantitative estimation of the total sulphates yields little of clinical value.
The total fresh troops amounted to about 500 men of the 73rd Native Regiment and Spanish cazadores.
Rich natives and Chinese lost large sums of money, the total of which cannot be ascertained.
Almost one-quarter of the total supply printed has been placed in circulation.
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