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altogether

[awl-tuh-geth-er, awl-tuh-geth-er]

adverb

  1. wholly; entirely; completely; quite.

    altogether fitting.

    Synonyms: , ,
  2. with all or everything included.

    The debt amounted altogether to twenty dollars.

  3. with everything considered; on the whole.

    Altogether, I'm glad it's over.



altogether

/ ˌɔːltəˈɡɛðə, ˈɔːltəˌɡɛðə /

adverb

  1. with everything included

    altogether he owed me sixty pounds

  2. completely; utterly; totally

    he was altogether mad

  3. on the whole

    altogether it was a very good party

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noun

  1. informalnaked

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Confusables Note

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.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of altogether1

First recorded in 1125–75; variant of Middle English altogeder; all, together
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. in the altogether, nude.

    When the phone rang she had just stepped out of the bathtub and was in the altogether.

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Example Sentences

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She said she feared that, if prices rose at the same rate in future, she would have to turn the heating off altogether, adding: "Then you get damp, so that's not the answer."

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Some brand owners who employ immigrants who are undocumented, or who have papers but still fear federal agents, have sent workers home altogether and halted operations.

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Preferably it would like to halt it altogether.

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It has become such a pervasive issue that in April the children's commission for England called on the government to introduce legislation to ban them altogether.

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But the beat has become so ingrained in their lives that they’ll never forsake it altogether.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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