whole

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The whole process took less than 10 minutes.

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Quick take

all of something including all its component elements or parts; "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature"

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

all of something including all its component elements or parts; "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature"

noun

an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"

adjective

including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete; "gave his whole attention"; "a whole wardrobe for the tropics"; "the whole hog"; "a whole week"; "the baby cried the whole trip home"; "a whole loaf of bread"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for whole.

noun

all of something including all its component elements or parts; "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature"

noun

an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"

adjective

(of siblings) having the same parents; "whole brothers and sisters"

adjective

not injured

adjective

exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health; "hale and hearty"; "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again"

adjective

acting together as a single undiversified whole; "a solid voting bloc"

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"

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

Example sentences

The whole process took less than 10 minutes.

It's been part of their culture for a whole generation now.

If they don't release the source, like BitTorrent Sync, they might as well just ditch this whole thing right now.

What used to be one simple input field is now a whole page with checkboxes you have to check and sub-objects you have to define.

[0] Actually, I don't think it's even fair to say that - she's been a downright advocate of a whole number of nasty practices.

The whole startup investment model is, put money into 10 companies, hope 1 succeeds.

One of the reasons I've taken an interest in this whole fiasco is that I occasionally make "colorful" jokes.

Microsoft was weird in a sort of cult like way, and had its own management problems, but was much more enjoyable... and really treated their employees a whole lot better.

France's prisons are so historically bad that they've spawned whole revolutions numerous times, and are a common factor in their history.

One of the rather interesting side issues in this whole debate has been how casually the rights of foreigners are tossed aside as secondary to those of american citizens.

It sounds from the story that the thing they're most upset about is missing an opportunity to lock down the whole airport while they dressed up as storm troopers and traipsed about in their armored doohickeys pretending to save the world.

But other large regional ISPs pretty quickly learned not to set fire to their customer base, and, by the end, I think our customer service was pretty much at par for the whole area; we were no longer truly different based on support.