altogether

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Quick take

informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of altogether gathered in one view.

noun

informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"

adverb

to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea"

adverb

with everything included or counted; "altogether he earns close to a million dollars"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for altogether.

noun

informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"

adverb

See also: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, whole

adverb

with everything included or counted; "altogether he earns close to a million dollars"

adverb

with everything considered (and neglecting details); "altogether, I'm sorry it happened"; "all in all, it's not so bad"

Example sentences

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" Which I think is altogether more helpful...

The author here misses it altogether in suggesting otherwise.

I'm skimming a lot more or actually skipping the comments altogether because I don't want to read them all to find the goodness.

And you basically eliminate the tax risks altogether.

Then as time passes the manufacturer slowly strips those touches out, replacing them with cheaper alternatives or just dropping them altogether.

So everybody's decided to abandon sane software versioning altogether and make the support end of things even more nuts?

This is the same way that we can leave out the int type in C function declarations, or completely leave out function declarations altogether if we're dealing only in ints.

And then I will stop listening to music and several minutes later notice that the function was entirely unnecessary, because I can make an architectural or data structure change instead and avoid writing the function altogether.

Ultimately following factors threw me away from D altogether:- my code isn't an island, I leverage a lot of libraries, and for each and every one I had to use I had to either make my own bindings or rely on somewhat unstable other people's bindings.