with all or everything included: The debt amounted altogether to twenty dollars.
with everything considered; on the whole: Altogether, I'm glad it's over.
Idioms for altogether
in the altogether, Informal. nude (def. 1): When the phone rang she had just stepped out of the bathtub and was in the altogether.
Origin of altogether
First recorded in 1125–75; variant of Middle English altogeder; see all, together
SYNONYMS FOR altogether
1 utterly, totally, absolutely.
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words often confused with altogether
The forms altogether and all together, though often indistinguishable in speech, are distinct in meaning. The adverb altogether means “wholly, entirely, completely”: an altogether confused scene. The phrase all together means “in a group”: The children were all together in the kitchen. This all can be omitted without seriously affecting the meaning: The children were together in the kitchen.
For parents everywhere, screen time has now taken on a different meaning altogether.
These methods will make screen time more enriching for your kids|By By Colleen Russo Johnson, PhD/Working Mother|September 24, 2020|Popular Science
On April 30, California suspended its polio vaccination program altogether, and by May 7 all polio vaccinations had been paused for a week by recommendation of the surgeon general.
Here’s What Happens When You Try to Scale Up Vaccine Production Too Quickly|Fiona Zublin|September 18, 2020|Ozy
So we have between 100 and 200,000, and we altogether have done a very good job.
Timeline: The 124 times Trump has downplayed the coronavirus threat|Aaron Blake, JM Rieger|September 17, 2020|Washington Post
Perhaps the last company to do so was Castlight Health in 2014, which subsequently lost over 95% of its value, but most prior examples occurred during the Internet bubble in 1999 and 2000 and ended up disappearing altogether.
Meet Snowflake, one of the buzziest tech IPOs ever|Aaron Pressman|September 15, 2020|Fortune
Coronavirus has denied brands the ability to plan, and forced some to pivot altogether and reinvent themselves.
Deep Dive: How the Summer of 2020 forced brand marketing to change for the better|jim cooper|September 14, 2020|Digiday
Still other people have moved away from the word “diet” altogether.
Why Your New Year’s Diet Will Fail|Carrie Arnold|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
First, bubonic (rhymes with pneumonic but is altogether different) is a local infection sequestered in a lymph node.
Bubonic Plague Is Back (but It Never Really Left)|Kent Sepkowitz|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Sixty-five years altogether,” she pointed out with a laugh.
Freedom From Fear for Dreamer Kids|Mike Barnicle|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So, just a week into a new pack of Microgestin, I stop taking them altogether.
Birth Control Made My Hair Fall Out, and I’m Not the Only One|Molly Oswaks|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Altogether, more than 5,000 energy-related companies call Houston home.
Battle of the Upstarts: Houston vs. San Francisco Bay|Joel Kotkin|October 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Altogether, it was a nice scrambling, homelike expedition, if I had not come back with such a bad headache.
Up the Country|Emily Eden
This increase was excessive and altogether unnecessary to the maintenance of thorough and progressive government.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May, 1900|Various
He altogether doubted his own powers to perform satisfactorily the task before him.
An Eye for an Eye|Anthony Trollope
Then, he was altogether one of us in his notions of pleasure and recreation.
Continental Monthly, Vol. I., No. IV., April, 1862|Various
How Ishtar came to take on so violent a character is not altogether clear.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria|Morris Jastrow
British Dictionary definitions for altogether
altogether
/ (ˌɔːltəˈɡɛðə, ˈɔːltəˌɡɛðə) /
adverb
with everything includedaltogether he owed me sixty pounds
en masse, generally, absolutely, thoroughly, wholly, utterly, fully, perfectly, totally, quite, all, well, all told, bodily, all in all, by and large, collectively, conjointly, for the most part, in all