altogether

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv

Completely, wholly, or without exception.
On the whole; with everything considered.
With everything included.
An intensifier: without doubt, clearly.

noun

A state of nakedness.

Pronunciation

/ɔːl.tʊˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)/ /ɔː.tuːˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)/ /ɔːl.təˈɡɛð.ə/ /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/ /ˈɔl.təˌɡɛð.ɚ/ /ɑl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/ /ˈɑl.təˌɡɛð.ɚ/ en-us-altogether.ogg

Word forms

altogether altogethers

Etymology

From Middle English altogeder, altogedere, equivalent to al- (“all”) + together. Cognate with Scots awthegither (“altogether”), Middle High German alzegater (“altogether”), Dutch altegaar. Compare also Old English ealġeador, eallġeador (“altogether”), West Frisian allegearre (“altogether”). More at together. The noun sense (nakedness): was popularized in George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby.

Synonyms

absolutely all-out tout à fait all the way blind altogether at large at length cap-a-pie categorically completely detailly downright entirely exhaustively finally first and last flat-out flat out from aardvark to zymurgy from A to Z from head to toe from soup to nuts from stem to stern from the rooter to the tooter from top to bottom from top to toe fully handsomely heartily head to foot head to tail head to toe hook line and sinker in detail in full lock stock and barrel one hundred percent out-and-out out and out outright particularly perfectly plumb properly purely quite right root and branch soundly soup-to-nuts straight up through and through top to tail top to toe totally

Derived words

altogetherness in the altogether

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