whole

Meanings

Plural: wholes

Noun

• all of something including all its component elements or parts
  • "Europe considered as a whole"
  • "the whole of American literature"
• an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
  • "how big is that part compared to the whole?"
• Something complete, without any parts missing.
• An entirety.

Adjective

• including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
  • "gave his whole attention"
  • "a whole wardrobe for the tropics"
  • "the whole hog"
  • "a whole week"
  • "the baby cried the whole trip home"
  • "a whole loaf of bread"
• (of siblings) having the same parents
  • "whole brothers and sisters"

Adjective Satellite

• not injured
• exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
  • "whole in mind and body"
  • "a whole person again"
• acting together as a single undiversified whole

Adverb

• to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
  • "a whole new idea"

Adj

• Entire, undivided.
• Entire, undivided.
• Used as an intensifier.
• Sound, uninjured, healthy.
• From which none of its constituents has been removed.
• As yet unworked.

Adv

• In entirety; entirely; wholly.

Synonyms

absolutely, all, all oak and iron bound, all the way, all-out, altogether, and barrel, and sinker, at large, at length, buxom, cap-a-pie, categorically, complete, completely, detailly, downright, entire, entirely, entireness, entirety, exhaustively, finally, first and last, fit, flat out, flat-out, from A to Z, from aardvark to zymurgy, from head to toe, from soup to nuts, from stem to stern, from the rooter to the tooter, from top to bottom, from top to toe, fullness, fully, hail, hale, hale and hearty, head to foot, head to tail, head to toe, healthy, heartily, holo-, hook, in detail, in full, in the pink of health, line, lock, lusty, one, one hundred percent, out and out, out-and-out, outright, overall, particularly, perfectly, pleroma, plumb, purely, quite, right, root and branch, solid, sound, sound as a barrel, sound as a bell, soundly, soup-to-nuts, stock, through and through, to the bone, to the core, to the full, top to tail, top to toe, total, totality, totally, totalness, totes, unanimous, unharmed, unhurt, unit, unscathed, utterly, well, well and truly, whole, whole cloth, wholeness, wholly

Antonyms

fractional, half, partly

Anagrams of whole