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altogether

.ɒ:ltә'geðә6 senses · 49 ms
Level B1CET-4高考考研Oxford 3000
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adv/ɔːl.tʊˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)//ɔː.tuːˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)//ɔːl.təˈɡɛð.ə/
  1. 1

    Completely, wholly, or without exception.not-comparable

    • Police did not seem altogether satisfied with my alibi.
  2. 2

    On the whole; with everything considered.not-comparable

    • Altogether, I'm sorry it happened.
  3. 3

    With everything included.not-comparable

    • Altogether, your bill comes to $6.99.
  4. 4

    An intensifier: without doubt, clearly.informalnot-comparable

    • It was a great game altogether.
    • That took altogether too much time.
  5. 5

    Archaic form of all together.alt-ofarchaicnot-comparable

    • There were about forty lines; and such lines! of all sorts and sizes, like a paper of mixed pins, […] long and short, corkings and minikins, jumbled altogether!
noun/ɔːl.tʊˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)//ɔː.tuːˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)//ɔːl.təˈɡɛð.ə/
  1. 1

    A state of nakedness.colloquialdated

    • 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.
    • 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.

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