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Completely, wholly, or without exception.not-comparable
- Police did not seem altogether satisfied with my alibi.
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On the whole; with everything considered.not-comparable
- Altogether, I'm sorry it happened.
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With everything included.not-comparable
- Altogether, your bill comes to $6.99.
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An intensifier: without doubt, clearly.informalnot-comparable
- It was a great game altogether.
- That took altogether too much time.
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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!
altogether
.ɒ:ltә'geðә6 senses · 59 ms
Level B1CET-4高考考研Oxford 3000
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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.