Nearby Words
adjective
1.
constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
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of or pertaining to the whole of something: the total effect of a play.
3.
complete in extent or degree; absolute; unqualified; utter: a total failure.
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involving all aspects, elements, participants, resources, etc.; unqualified; all-out: total war.
noun
5.
the total amount; sum; aggregate: a total of $200.
6.
the whole; an entirety: the impressive total of Mozart's achievement.
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Totaling
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. |
verb (used with object)
7.
to bring to a total; add up.
8.
to reach a total of; amount to.
9.
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
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), -taled, -tal·ing or (especially British) -talled, -tal·ling, noun
su·per·to·tal, noun
un·to·taled, adjective
EXPANDun·to·talled, adjective
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
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
EXPAND eclipse sense, 1842. Total war is attested from 1937, in ref. to a concept developed in Germany.
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