altogether

Forms

Plural: altogethers

Definitions

Adverb
A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

1.Completely, wholly, or without exception.
- Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me.
- Police did not seem altogether satisfied with my alibi.
2.On the whole; with everything considered.
- Altogether, I'm sorry it happened.
3.With everything included.
- Altogether, your bill comes to $6.99.
4.An intensifier: without doubt, clearly.(informal)
- It was a great game altogether.
- That took altogether too much time.

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1.A state of nakedness.(colloquial)
- Last week, a Cleveland news anchor, Sharon Reed, was caught on camera stripping nude and joining a gaggle of other people in the altogether.
- Hearing that his wife was posing in the altogether for the great Spanish satirist, the Duke of Alba swore that he would paint Goya's picture in Goya's blood.
- And she objects, too, to the "altogether." Her gowns will never be cut more décolleté than those seen in the boxes of the Metropolitan Opera House of New York city.

Frequency

Overall

Rare· #4342

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Rare
General reading & writing: Rare
Academic: Rare
Literature: Rare

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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.

AdverbAdverb×A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

NounNoun×A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.