altogether
advEtymology
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.
- inherited from altogeder
Definitions
Completely, wholly, or without exception.
- Police did not seem altogether satisfied with my alibi.
- Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me.
On the whole
On the whole; with everything considered.
- Altogether, I'm sorry it happened.
With everything included.
- Altogether, your bill comes to $6.99.
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An intensifier
An intensifier: without doubt, clearly.
- It was a great game altogether.
- That took altogether too much time.
A state of nakedness.
- And she objects, too, to the "altogether." Her gowns will never be cut more décolleté than those seen in the boxes of the Metropolitan Opera House of New York city.
- Hearing that his wife was posing in the altogether for the great Spanish satirist, the Duke of Alba swore that he would paint Goya's picture in Goya's blood.
- Last week, a Cleveland news anchor, Sharon Reed, was caught on camera stripping nude and joining a gaggle of other people in the altogether.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for altogether. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA