overall
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3.1
- adjective
- /ˈoʊvərˌɔl/
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global
- The overall quality of the project impressed the committee.
- overall performance
- overall score
- overall health
It could just use a slight overall bump in brightness.
- It could just use a slight overall bump in brightness.
- But again, all of that is building up your overall resilience.
- OK, so this is my overall shape, this pestle.
- Another of the sort of overall principles is choice.
- But here's the thing, the overall relationship was amazing.
- What do you think the overall vote on Potato was?
- But the overall goal is the same.
- It's always wrong, even if it increases the overall happiness of society.
- It becomes like an overall head to toe feeling.
Examples
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I went into them really blind and I overall enjoyed my week.
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Not everything covered, but the overall tone is pretty good.
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And my memory overall is not so good.
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I think results net overall in a loss.
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Will that lead to overall bad effects, you think?
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But yeah, I mean, overall, like, it's been good.
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But this does smooth out the overall supply.
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But again, all of that is building up your overall resilience.
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How would you rate the value of this overall experience to your preparation as a teacher?
Academic text (2011) -
And changing your perspective can change your overall well-being and life.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Not specific and including most people or cases
∞
1.0
Complete and not missing any part
17
5.9
Including all parts of something
15
4.4
Affecting everyone or everything in a group in the same way
12
6.0
Including everything and everyone in a single plan
Antonyms
Compounds
How Comprehensive
- Formal
32
6.6
298
4.6
616
3.1
469
3.7
56
4.5
203
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overall comes from the simple parts over ('above') and all ('everything'). So, when we say something is overall we mean the general or total view that covers 'everything'.