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adverb

ˌȯl-tə-ˈge-t͟hər How to pronounce altogether (audio)
Definition of altogethernext
1
as in mostly
for the most part altogether, I'd say we had a pretty good time

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2
as in completely
to a full extent or degree I was not altogether prepared for such bad news

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3
as in collectively
with everyone or everything taken into account at the same time we spent six months in Europe altogether

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altogether

2 of 2

noun

as in nudity
the state of having no clothes on one's body had never posed in the altogether for a photographer before

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Recent Examples of altogether
Adverb
If businesses cannot tell which practices are covered, the safe response is to stop personalizing altogether, and the first thing to disappear will be the discounts, not the surcharges. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026 The $111 billion merger has divided Hollywood amid a legal battle from the State of California to stop the deal altogether. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
According to my calculations, the White House methodology yields the absurd conclusion that eliminating the corporate tax altogether would boost annual household wages by up to $20,000. — Jason Furman, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2017 See All Example Sentences for altogether
Recent Examples of Synonyms for altogether
  1. mostly
  2. completely
  3. collectively
  4. nudity
  5. chiefly
  6. quite
  7. overall
  8. nude
Adverb
  • Mastering the clipping economy Some of Ossoff’s newfound fans know him mostly from clips — one or two-minute-long videos that travel wide and far on social media platforms.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • But critics say the president has not met those expectations and has become unpopular among many of Nigeria's mostly young voters.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of mostly
Adverb
  • There are new bargains to discover, players whose prices might be completely wrong and plenty of uncertainty about which teams and players are going to emerge as the best options.
    — Holly Shand, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Every episode of a show needs to be completely produced and dubbed or subtitled into dozens of languages before any episode can debut.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of completely
Adverb
  • Once a fixture of the American experience, the custom of collectively huddling around the cathode-ray hearth has largely been supplanted by the isolationist practices of the smartphone era.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Between 2015 and 2024, the seven stocks collectively earned an eye-popping 698%, nearly four times the return for the S&P 500 as a whole, according to The Motley Fool.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of collectively
Noun
  • The selfie is carefully cropped at the waist, narrowly skirting past Instagram’s community guidelines on nudity.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Aug. 2026
  • That doesn’t necessarily mean doing nudity, which Variety said isn’t something found on her account.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of nudity
Adverb
  • Today, other drugs are more often deployed, chiefly benzodiazepines or the benzodiazepine Clonazepam, which also render a person zombie-like and more reliably submissive.
    — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Beyond overall car performance, a pressing concern for Cadillac this year has been reliability, chiefly recurring brake overheating issues (below).
    — Luke Smith, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of chiefly
Adverb
  • The currents in the sea mean that swimming with small children or weak swimmers can be quite unrelaxing.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Jacquelyn is quite private and has no social media accounts.
    — Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of quite
Adverb
  • Another sellout crowd at Chase Center cheered the team to its 15th win in the last 17 games overall — among those fans Warriors star Stephen Curry, son Canon, and some teammates.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Today's spacewalk will be the 282nd overall in the long history of the ISS.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of overall
Noun
  • Burt’s Bees Tinted Lip Balm Liv Basche, 16, just wants some lip balm—and Burt’s Bees (in Red Dahlia, a your-lips-but-better pinky nude) will do.
    — Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The re-victimization can include sextortion threats, which involve demanding the victim pay up, otherwise their nudes will be widely leaked.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026
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