Meaning

Completely, wholly, or without exception..

Definitions by Sense

1. Completely, wholly, or without exception.
2. On the whole; with everything considered.
3. With everything included.
4. (informal) An intensifier: without doubt, clearly.
5. (colloquial, dated, with the) A state of nakedness.

Example Sentences

Police did not seem altogether satisfied with my alibi.

Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me.

One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.

Altogether, I'm sorry it happened.

A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After FIFA’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward.

Altogether, your bill comes to $6.99.

It was a great game altogether.

Word Forms

• altogethers

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Use altogether when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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