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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing all components; complete.
- adjective Not divided or disjoined; in one unit.
- adjective Constituting the full amount, extent, or duration.
- adjective Not wounded, injured, or impaired; sound or unhurt.
- adjective Having been restored; healed.
- adjective Having the same parents.
- noun A number, group, set, or thing lacking no part or element; a complete thing.
- noun An entity or system made up of interrelated parts.
- adverb Entirely; wholly.
- idiom (as a whole) All parts or aspects considered; altogether.
- idiom (on the whole) Considering everything.
- idiom (on the whole) In most instances or cases; as a rule.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wholly; entirely.
- Hale; healthy; sound; strong; well.
- Restored to a sound state; healed; made well.
- Unimpaired; uninjured: unbroken; intact: as, the dish is still whole; to get off with a whole skin.
- Entire; complete; without omission, reduction, diminution, etc.: as, a whole apple; the whole duty of man; to serve the Lord with one's whole heart; three whole days; the whole body.
- All; every part, unit, or member required to make up the aggregate: as, the whole city turned out to receive him.
- Without reserve; sincerely or entirely devoted.
- Unified; in harmony or accord; one.
- In mining. that part of a coal-seam in process of being worked in which the headings only have been driven, the rest remaining untouched, or before “working the broken” has begun.
- Synonyms and Entire, Total, etc. See
complete . - noun An entire thing; a thing complete in itself; the entire or total assemblage of parts; all of a thing without defect or exception.
- noun A complete system; a regular combination of parts; an organic unity.
- noun Synonyms Total, totality, entirety, amount, aggregate, gross, sum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself.
- noun A regular combination of parts; a system.
- noun See under
Committee . - noun considering all things; taking everything into account; in view of all the circumstances or conditions.
- adjective Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire
- adjective Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral
- adjective Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness; healthy; sound; well.
- adjective (Law of Descent) See under
Blood , n., 2. - adjective (Mus.) the note which represents a note of longest duration in common use; a semibreve.
- adjective (Math.) a number which is not a fraction or mixed number; an integer.
- adjective (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] the common snipe, as distinguished from the smaller jacksnipe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
entire . - adjective
sound ,uninjured ,healthy . - adjective of food From which none of its constituents has been removed.
- adverb colloquial in
entirety ;entirely ;wholly - noun Something
complete , without any partsmissing . - noun An
entirety .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not injured
- adjective exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
- adjective including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
- adjective acting together as a single undiversified whole
- adverb to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
- noun an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The error of the opposite argument, is in assuming one thing, which, being denied, the whole fails; that is, it assumes that the _whole_ labor of the United States would be profitably employed without manufactures.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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The Law secured to them the _whole of every seventh year; _ Lev.xxv. 3-6; thus giving to those who were servants during the entire period between the jubilees, _eight whole years, _ including the jubilee year, of unbroken rest.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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This principle is as follows: _government, as the representative of the will of the whole people, should in general, attempt the regulation, or control, of industrial matters only to benefit the people as a whole_.
Monopolies and the People Charles Whiting Baker
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Rule, it being but _two whole Notes_ from the next _half Note_ to it; the reason is this, the _Ninth_ is one _whole Note_ below the _Eighth_, therefore the 2 must be a _whole Note_ below the _Treble_, otherwise they would not be a true _Eighth_, therefore the _half Note_ is put between 2 and 3.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing Wherein is laid down plain and easie Rules for Ringing all sorts of Plain Changes Richard Duckworth
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The Law secured to them the _whole of every seventh year; _ Lev.xxv. 3-6; thus giving to those who were servants during the entire period between the jubilees, _eight whole years, _ including the jubilee year, of unbroken rest.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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According to metaphysic, the perception of matter is not the whole given fact with which we have to deal in working out this problem -- (it is not the whole given fact; for, as we have said, our apprehension of, or participation in, the perception of matter -- this is the whole given fact); -- but the perception of matter is the _whole objective_ part of the given fact.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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The great thing in this war is to see the whole thing in proportion -- the _whole_ thing.
The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912
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I used to think about dancing-school, and birthday parties, and rigging up, and summer fashions, and how many diamonds I'd have when I was married, and all that, the whole of the time, Peace — the _whole_ of it; then I got mad when my dresses didn't fit, and I used to strike Therése and Kate, if you'll believe it — when I was real angry that was.
Gypsy's Cousin Joy Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1877
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It was a "mean old night" to the whole house; and when I say the _whole_ house, I mean both halves of it.
The Twin Cousins Sophie May 1869
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But it was unoccupied that he might fill a higher seat prepared, waiting for, and needing, not the undying part but the everlasting whole; for we are not _whole_ till we drop our dust!
Related Words
synonyms (241)
Words with the same meaning
- a certain
- absolute
- account
- across-the-board
- admissibility
- admission
- admitting no exception
- aggregate
- all
- all hands
- all the world
- all-comprehensive
- all-embracing
- all-inclusive
- all-out
- amount
- amplitude
- an
- any
- any one
- assimilation
- atomic
- be-all
- be-all and end-all
- being
- blanket
- box score
- bulk
- bunkum
- cast
- categorical
- census
- clear
- coherence
- cohesion
- compendious
- complete
- completeness
- complex
- composition
- comprehension
- comprehensive
- comprehensiveness
- comprisal
- concentrated
- conclusive
- constituents
- content
- contents
- count
- coverage
- decided
- decisive
- definite
- definitive
- determinate
- developed
- difference
- divisions
- downright
- either
- elements
- eligibility
- embodiment
- embracement
- encompassment
- encyclopedic
- ensemble
- entire
- entirety
- entity
- envisagement
- every man Jack
- everybody
- everyone
- exclusive
- exhaustive
- exhaustiveness
- explicit
- express
- extent
- final
- fit
- fixed
- flat
- flat-out
- flawless
- force
- full
- full-fledged
- full-grown
- full-scale
- general
- global
- good
- gross
- guts
- hale
- healthy
- holistic
- implicit
- inappealable
- inclusion
- inclusive
- inclusiveness
- incorporation
- index
- indisputable
- individual
- indivisible
- ingredients
- innards
- insides
- intact
- integer
- integral
- integrate
- integrated
- inventory
- irreducible
- items
- linkage
- list
- lone
- magnitude
- mass
- matter
- mature
- matured
- measure
- measurement
- membership
- monadic
- monistic
- number
- numbers
- omnibus
- one
- one and all
- one and indivisible
- openness
- orbicular
- organism
- organization
- out-and-out
- outright
- over-all
- panoramic
- part
- participation
- parts
- peremptory
- perfect
- plenary
- positive
- product
- quantity
- quantum
- reception
- reckoning
- result
- resultant
- right
- ripe
- round
- rounded
- sane
- score
- simple
- single
- singular
- sole
- solid
- solitary
- sound
- straight
- straight-out
- strength
- substance
- sum
- sum total
- summation
- supply
- sweeping
- synoptic
- system
- tale
- tally
- the bottom line
- the story
- the whole story
- tolerance
- toleration
- total
- totality
- tote
- tout le monde
- unabbreviated
- unanalyzable
- unblemished
- unbroken
- uncircumscribed
- unconditional
- unconditioned
- uncut
- undamaged
- undiminished
- undistracted
- undivided
- undoubting
- unequivocal
- unexpurgated
- unhampered
- unhesitating
- unhurt
- uniform
- unimpaired
- uninjured
- unique
- unitary
- unity
- universal
- unlimited
- unmarred
- unmistakable
- unmitigated
- unqualified
- unquestioning
- unreserved
- unrestricted
- unswerving
- untouched
- unwaivable
- utter
- well
- well-rounded
- wholesome
- without exception
- without omission
- without reserve
- x number
equivalents (12)
Other words for 'whole'
same context (46)
Words that are found in similar contexts
forms (11)
Forms
cross-references (31)
Cross-references
- a lie out of whole cloth
- actual whole
- by the whole
- collective
- committee of the whole
- definitive
- in
- on
- part
- physical
- the whole box and dice
- the whole kit
- the whole world
- to go the whole figure
- upon the whole
- upon the whole matter
- well
- whole blood
- whole cadence
- whole chest
- whole cradle
- whole deal
- whole fiat
- whole milk
- whole number
- whole press
- whole shift
- whole sine of a circle
- whole stalls
- whole step
- whole tone
rhymes (54)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Cole
- Dole
- Kohl
- Nicole
- Ole
- Pole
- Seoul
- Sol
- atoll
- bole
- boll
- bowl
- cajole
- coal
- cole
- console
- control
- decontrol
- dhole
- dole
- droll
- enroll
- extol
- foal
- goal
- hole
- knoll
- kohl
- mole
- nole
- noll
- ole
- parole
- patrol
- pistole
- pole
- poll
- rock-and-roll
- role
- roll
- scroll
- self-control
- skoal
- sol
- sole
- soul
- sowle
- stole
- stroll
- thole
- tole
- toll
- troll
- viole
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