altogether
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3.0
- adverb
- /ˌɔːltəˈɡɛðər/
:
en total
- After reviewing the budget, they concluded that they had spent too much money altogether.
- Altogether, there are now
- twenty altogether
- 30 altogether
And they are seen often as warm and pleasant and altogether really nice people.
- And they are seen often as warm and pleasant and altogether really nice people.
- How long altogether was vetting slash training?
- And this is a fairly short book altogether.
- So I had them look at it altogether that piece took about two years to complete.
- I think there is a a kind of disrespect for truth altogether.
Examples
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After the Conclave, I hope to resign as Dean, and then leave Rome altogether.
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The prospect of escaping the castle altogether, even if only for a short time, was irresistible.
Fiction book (1991) -
And some people feel that he may have stopped playing altogether.
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We had to stop work altogether.
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In fact he stopped painting altogether.
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So it's not like the kind of struggles that happened way in the past in places like the UK have disappeared altogether from the planet.
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And they ignored other aspects of the story altogether.
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Other women opt out of the food game altogether by eating with abandon and getting fat.
Academic text (1992) -
That's a good reason to give up on men altogether.
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Current reports on teachers and teaching practices in the Arab countries are not altogether complimentary.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
806
1.0
The total when you add everything together
616
3.1
Including all parts to give a general view
240
3.5
Considering all parts together
76
3.2
A way to say you have thought about everything
33
3.3
In general, something is true when you think about everything
28
3.7
You say this after thinking about all parts of a situation
9
4.2
In total when everything is included
When you think about everything together
Idioms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Altogether comes from the two simple words all and together, where all means 'every' and together means 'joined' or 'as one'. So when you say the trip cost less than expected 'altogether', you mean 'in total', with all parts added up.