| 单词 | altogether |
| 释义 | altogether /awl'teuh gedh"euhr, awl"teuh gedh'euhr/, adv. 1. wholly; entirely; completely; quite: altogether fitting. 2. with all or everything included: The debt amounted altogether to twenty dollars. 3. with everything considered; on the whole: Altogether, I'm glad it's over. n. 4. in the altogether, Informal. nude: When the phone rang she had just stepped out of the bathtub and was in the altogether. [1125-75; var. of ME altogeder. See ALL, TOGETHER] Syn. 1. utterly, totally, absolutely. Usage. 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. |
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