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Idiom1.
wholly; entirely; completely; quite: altogether fitting.
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with all or everything included: The debt amounted altogether to twenty dollars.
3.
with everything considered; on the whole: Altogether, I'm glad it's over.
4.
in the altogether, Informal. nude: When the phone rang she had just stepped out of the bathtub and was in the altogether.
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Altogether
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Synonyms
1. utterly, totally, absolutely.
1. utterly, totally, absolutely.
Usage note
The forms altogether and all together, though often indistinguishable in speech, are distinct in meaning. The adverb altogether means “wholly, entirely, completely”: an altogether confused scene. The phrase all together means “in a group”: The children were all together in the kitchen. EXPANDThis all can be omitted without seriously affecting the meaning: The children were together in the kitchen.
COLLAPSE
The forms altogether and all together, though often indistinguishable in speech, are distinct in meaning. The adverb altogether means “wholly, entirely, completely”: an altogether confused scene. The phrase all together means “in a group”: The children were all together in the kitchen. EXPANDThis all can be omitted without seriously affecting the meaning: The children were together in the kitchen.
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Example Sentences
- It feels highly strung and nervous, not altogether sure of itself.
- There is a real need for better preparation in this area altogether.
- However, the culture of an organization is a different story altogether.
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