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Altogether   /ˌɔltəgˈɛðər/   Listen
adverb
Altogether  adv.  
1.
All together; conjointly. (Obs.) "Altogether they went at once."
2.
Without exception; wholly; completely. "Every man at his best state is altogether vanity."


noun
altogether  n.  
1.
Nakedness; used mostly in the phrase "in the altogether". (informal)
Synonyms: raw, buff, birthday suit





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"Altogether" Quotes from Famous Books



... contrary I shall be perfectly satisfied with whatever may be judged decent and proper. I should even scarcely have ventured to suggest, that perhaps a servile adherence to the garb of antiquity might not be altogether so expedient, as some little deviation in favor of ...
— The True George Washington [10th Ed.] • Paul Leicester Ford
... minutes he lost sight of the city altogether; so, still clinging to the body of the Turk, he again turned the indicator and began to descend. When, at last, they landed gently upon a rocky eminence of the Kuen-Lun mountains, the boy's strength was almost exhausted, and his limbs ached ...
— The Master Key - An Electrical Fairy Tale • L. Frank Baum
... of those shrewd, easy-going, stern but good-natured, lawyers that one meets away off in the country. He was altogether removed from that obnoxious thing, the small town lawyer. Up in the edge of his gray hair rested a pair of spectacles, with octagon shaped lenses, almost completely camouflaged by his grizzled locks. These spectacles were seldom where ...
— Pee-wee Harris on the Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... was not that altogether that troubled Gavin, for there was certainly something very badly wrong with the lad. It was love and war combined that ailed him, and the war had become a burden too heavy for ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith
... having taken orders, was presented to the vicarage of Dean Prior in Devonshire. From this living he was ejected by the Long Parliament in 1648, and, going up to London, he united himself with some of his former associates and entered upon a career not altogether creditable to his profession of parson. At the restoration of Charles II. he was returned to his vicarage, where he remained until his death in 1674. His best poems are included in the collection entitled "Hesperides, or Works Humane and Divine," ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin


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