“whole”

Definitions

• adjective

  including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete

  Synonyms: absolute, account, admissibility, admission, aggregate, all, amount, amplitude, an, any, assimilation, atomic

  Antonyms: fractional

  • Example:“… gave his whole attention”
  • Example:“a whole wardrobe for the tropics”

• adjective

  (of siblings) having the same parents

  Antonyms: half

  • Example:“whole brothers and sisters”

• adjective

  not injured or harmed

  Synonyms: unharmed, unhurt, unscathed

• adjective

  exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health

  Synonyms: hale

  • Example:“hale and hearty”
  • Example:“whole in mind and body”

• adjective

  acting together as a single undiversified whole

  Synonyms: solid, unanimous

  • Example:“a solid voting bloc”

• noun

  all of something including all its component elements or parts

  • Example:“Europe considered as a whole.”
  • Example:“the whole of American literature”