altogether
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːl.tʊˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɔː.tuːˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɔːl.təˈɡɛð.ə/
ipa: /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈɔl.təˌɡɛð.ɚ/
ipa: /ɑl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑl.təˌɡɛð.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English altogeder, altogedere, equivalent to al- (“all”) + together. Cognate with Scots awthegither (“altogether”), Middle High German alzegater (“altogether”), Dutch altegaar. Compare also Old English ealġeador, eallġeador (“altogether”), West Frisian allegearre (“altogether”). More at together.
The noun sense (nakedness): was popularized in George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby.
Senses: examples: text: Police did not seem altogether satisfied with my alibi.
text: Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me.
ref: 1891, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
ref: 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24:
synonyms: word: absolutely
word: all-out
word: all the way
word: altogether
word: at large
word: at length
word: cap-a-pie
word: categorically
word: completely
word: detailly
word: downright
word: entirely
word: exhaustively
word: finally
word: first and last
word: flat-out
word: flat out
word: from aardvark to zymurgy
word: from A to Z
word: from head to toe
word: from soup to nuts
word: from stem to stern
word: from the rooter to the tooter
word: from top to bottom
word: from top to toe
word: fully
word: handsomely
word: heartily
word: head to foot
word: head to tail
word: head to toe
word: hook
word: line
word: and sinker
word: in detail
word: in full
word: lock
word: stock
word: and barrel
word: one hundred percent
word: out-and-out
word: out and out
word: outright
word: particularly
word: perfectly
word: plumb
word: purely
word: quite
word: right
word: root and branch
word: soundly
word: soup-to-nuts
word: straight up
word: through and through
word: top to tail
word: top to toe
word: totally
word: totes
word: to the bone
word: to the core
word: to the full
word: utterly
word: well and truly
word: whole
word: whole cloth
word: wholly
glosses: Completely, wholly, or without exception.
examples: text: Altogether, I'm sorry it happened.
text: A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After FIFA’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward.
ref: 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England 5, Iceland 0: under 21 match report”, in The Telegraph:
synonyms: word: all in all
word: all in all
word: all things considered
word: altogether
word: as a rule
word: basically
word: by and large
word: chiefly
word: feckly
word: for the most part
word: generally
word: in the main
word: largely
word: mainly
word: mostly
word: on the whole
word: overall
word: predominantly
word: pretty well
word: primarily
word: principally
glosses: On the whole; with everything considered.
examples: text: Altogether, your bill comes to $6.99.
synonyms: all told
glosses: With everything included.
examples: text: It was a great game altogether.
text: That took altogether too much time.
glosses: An intensifier: without doubt, clearly.
Derived terms: altogetherness