altogether
Americanadverb
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wholly; entirely; completely; quite.
altogether fitting.
- Synonyms:
- absolutely, totally, utterly
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with all or everything included.
The debt amounted altogether to twenty dollars.
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with everything considered; on the whole.
Altogether, I'm glad it's over.
idioms
adverb
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with everything included
altogether he owed me sixty pounds
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completely; utterly; totally
he was altogether mad
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on the whole
altogether it was a very good party
noun
Commonly Confused
The forms altogether and all together, though often indistinguishable in speech, are distinct in meaning. The adverb altogether means “wholly, entirely, completely”: an altogether confused scene. The phrase all together means “in a group”: The children were all together in the kitchen. The word all can be omitted without seriously affecting the meaning: The children were together in the kitchen.
Etymology
Origin of altogether
First recorded in 1125–75; variant of Middle English altogeder; all, together
Example Sentences
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Multinational companies such as Magna, Dana and BorgWarner slashed jobs and closed plants due to the EV pullback, while a string of smaller manufacturers shut down altogether.
If future hardware is designed specifically for one-bit models, it will eliminate the need for complex mathematical multiplications altogether, he said.
That line of thinking became so prevalent that many MLB organizations stopped teaching the splitter altogether.
“And then you stopped messaging me altogether. Not that I can blame you, but it hurt that you gave up on me, because I felt like you of all people should have known. Should’ve asked.”
From Literature
Nine, at this point, was quite irritated with the half-dead fox, who seemed not only to have failed to follow their clearly mapped-out plan but to have forgotten it altogether.
From Literature
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