quasi-total

adjective

constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.

of or pertaining to the whole of something: the total effect of a play.

complete in extent or degree; absolute; unqualified; utter: a total failure.

involving all aspects, elements, participants, resources, etc.; unqualified; all-out: total war.

noun

the total amount; sum; aggregate: a total of $200.

the whole; an entirety: the impressive total of Mozart's achievement.

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verb (used with object)

to bring to a total; add up.

to reach a total of; amount to.

Slang. to wreck or demolish completely: He totaled his new car in the accident.

verb (used without object)

10.

to amount (often followed by to ).

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English (adj.) < Medieval Latin tōtālis, equivalent to Latin tōt(us) entire + -ālis -al¹

Related forms

qua·si-to·tal, adjective

qua·si-to·tal·ly, adverb

re·to·tal, verb (used with object), re·to·taled, re·to·tal·ing or (especially British) re·to·talled, re·to·tal·ling, noun

su·per·to·tal, noun

un·to·taled, adjective

un·to·talled, adjective

Synonyms
1. complete. 5, 6. gross, totality. 6. See whole.

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total (ˈtəʊt^əl)

—n
1.	the whole, esp regarded as the complete sum of a number of parts

—*adj*
2.	complete; absolute: the evening was a total failure; a total eclipse
3.	(prenominal) being or related to a total: the total number of passengers

—vb (when intr, sometimes foll by to) , -tals, -talling, -talled, -tals, -taling, -taled
4.	to amount: to total six pounds
5.	(tr) to add up: to total a list of prices
6.	slang (tr) to kill or badly injure (someone)
7.	chiefly (US) (tr) to damage (a vehicle) beyond repair

[C14: from Old French, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from Latin tōtus all]

'totally

—*adv*

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total

late 14c., from O.Fr. total, from M.L. totalis "entire, total" (as in summa totalis "sum total"), from L. totus "all, whole, entire," of unknown origin. The noun is 1557, from the adj.; the verb is 1716, from the noun; meaning "to destroy one's car" first recorded 1954. Totality is from 1598; in the

eclipse sense, 1842. Total war is attested from 1937, in ref. to a concept developed in Germany.

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"If for Americans, at least, the Great War could sometimes be imagined as a brief, quasi-athletic lark, the Second War permitted no such melioration by the spirit of adolescent optimism. In North Africa alone, the 1st Infantry Division spent more time in mortal contact with the enemy than all the time it spent—forming up, marching, drawing equipment, lining up at the mess hall, training, bitching—in all of the First World War. And on December 7, 1941, the American navy lost in one day more men killed—2008, to be exact—than in all the days of the earlier war. The Second World War, total and global as it was, killed worldwide, more civilian men, women, and children than soldiers, sailors, and airmen. And compared with the idiocies of Verdun, Gallipoli, or Tannenberg, it was indescribably cruel and insane. It was not until the Second World War had enacted all its madness that one could realize how near Victorian social and ethical norms the First World War really was."

-Paul Fussell

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