total
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊ.tl̩/
enpr: tōʹtl
ipa: /ˈtoʊ.tl̩/
ipa: [tʰoʊ̯ɾɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔɾɫ]
rhymes: -əʊtəl
Forms: form: more total
form: most total
form: totall
Etymology: From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis, the former element of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan 𐌕𐌏𐌖𐌕𐌏 (touto, “community, city-state”), Umbrian 𐌕𐌏𐌕𐌀𐌌 (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þēod (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.
Senses: examples: text: The total book is rubbish from start to finish.  The total number of votes cast is 3,270.
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Each member brought a unique musical influence to the total sound.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: Entire; relating to the whole of something.
examples: text: He is a total failure.
text: Air waid! Wights out! Total bwackout!
ref: 1942 November 21, A Tale of Two Kitties, spoken by Tweety:
glosses: Complete; absolute.
raw_tags: used as an intensifier
examples: text: The Ackermann function is one of the simplest and earliest examples of a total computable function that is not primitive recursive.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Defined on all possible inputs.
raw_tags: of a function
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
raw_tags: of a relation R on X × Y
topics: mathematics
sciences
hyponyms: connected
complete
strongly connected
glosses: Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.
raw_tags: of a partial order ≤
Synonyms: sense: entire
word: entire
word: full
word: whole
word: entire
word: absolute
word: complete
word: utter
word: abject
word: frightful
word: arrant
word: categoric
word: categorical
word: consummate
word: downright
word: full-blown
word: full-bore
word: full-on
word: mere
word: outright
word: out-and-out
word: perfect
word: proper
word: pure
word: rank
word: regular
word: right
word: root and branch
word: sheer
word: straight-out
word: thorough
word: thoroughgoing
word: total
word: unadulterated
word: unalloyed
word: unattenuated
word: uncompromising
word: unconditional
word: unfettered
word: unmitigated
word: unqualified
word: unreserved
word: unrestricted
word: wholesale
Related terms: word: completely
word: entire
word: entirety
word: intact
word: damned
word: the dickens
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