On The Whole

Definition: On The Whole

On The Whole

Adverb

1. With everything considered (and neglecting details); "altogether, I'm sorry it happened"; "all in all, it's not so bad".

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Synonyms: On The Whole

Judgment

Adverb: on the whole, all things considered.

Reasoning,

In conclusion, in fine; finally, after all, au bout du compt, on the whole, taking one thing with another.

Whole

Adverb: wholly, altogether; totally; (completely); entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together; in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run; en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch; substantially.

Crosswords: On The Whole

Parfait's gotta be the tastiest thing on the whole damn planet! (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott)

So, you took on the whole Nazi party? (Cabaret; writing credit: Christopher Isherwood; John Van Druten)

Where did you two come down on the whole circumcision controversy? (Flirting with Disaster; writing credit: David O. Russell)

I've boned a troll I've wreaked some wrath, but on the whole I've had no path, I like to bowl I'm good with math but who am I? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

The station is fully automated; there's not a soul on the whole planet. (Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before; writing credit: Samuel A. Peeples)

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Books

• Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

• Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary On the Whole Bible (reference)

  (more book examples)

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To be issued forthwith, further 40,000,000,000 Marks gold bearer bonds, bearing interest at 2-1/2 per cent. per annum between 1921 and l926, and thereafter at 5 per cent. per annum with an additional l per cent. for amortisation beginning in 1926 on the whole amount of the issue. (reference)

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So, on the whole, he was rather glad to get rid of them.

Many solutions were suggested for the problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green peices of paper that were unhappy.

Paris takes the palm on the whole.

On the whole, I think that it cannot be maintained that dressing has in this or any country risen to the dignity of an art.

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Health

On the other hand, various studies have found that groups of people exposed to high levels of aluminum do not have an increased risk. Moreover, aluminum in cooking utensils does not get into food and the aluminum that does occur naturally in some foods, such as potatoes, is not absorbed well by the body. On the whole, scientists can say only that it is still uncertain whether exposure to aluminum plays a role in Alzheimer's disease. (references)

Business

Interest in multi-purpose vehicles (MPV) runs high. On the whole, the MPV market is expanding faster than any other segment. (references)

The travel sector in Belgium has had a good record on the whole, but extreme vigilance is advised, especially with the smaller tour operators. (references)

Agriculture on the whole contributes 30 percent to the Kenyan Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Agribusiness relies mostly on domestic resources derived from or linked to agriculture. (references)

Civil Liberties

Yugoslavia

Living conditions for Roma in Serbia were, on the whole, extremely poor. (references)

Kenya

Kamanda later was released and the treason charge was dropped; however, he was charged with the lesser offense of "incitement." On the whole, the print media remained candid and independent. (references)

Economic History

Greece

Objectivity as known to the U.S. media on the whole does not exist in the Greek media. (references)

Human Rights

Jordan

Prisons and local police detention facilities are Spartan, and on the whole are severely overcrowded and understaffed; however most prisons meet international standards. (references)

Jamaica

The Government charged Ministry of Health officers with finding appropriate "places of safety" for juveniles, and the new procedures are considered effective on the whole. (references)

Political Economy

CHILE

Auto sales on the whole have been declining since the 1998 recession. (references)

Political Rights

China

Foreign observers who have monitored local village committee elections and have judged the elections they observed, on the whole, to have been fair. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

In particular, the minimum size of authorized capital at the moment of registration of a regional corporate bank cannot be less than EURO 1 million, for commercial bank operating on the territory of a certain region - EURO 3 million, and for those working on the whole territory of Ukraine - EURO 5 million. (references)

Women

Pakistan

Judges on the whole reportedly are reluctant to convict; however, if there is some evidence, judges have been known to convict the accused of the lesser offense of adultery or fornication (consensual sex). (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "on the whole": ad on the whole. Additional references.

Albanian

në pjesën më të madhe (mainly, mostly), kryesisht (chiefly, especially, largely, mainly, mostly, par excellence, predominantly, primarily, principally, substantially), e marrë në kompleks. (various references)

Arabic 

‏عامة (in all, popularly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

като цяло (all in all, at large, bodily, totally), общо взето (all in all, altogether, by and large, generally). (various references)

Chinese 

總算 (at long last, finally), 基本上 (basically), 抵 (dry, hold up, hot, mortgage, push against, to arrive, to reach, to resist, to support), 氐 (foundation, name of an ancient tribe), 大都 (for the most part, general), 大�" (in general). (various references)

Czech

celkem (altogether, generally, in sum, in the aggregate, overall). (various references)

Dutch

over het algemeen genomen (altogether, as a whole), alles wel beschouwd (altogether, as a whole), überhaupt (altogether, as a whole, generally). (various references)

Esperanto

entute (altogether, as a whole). (various references)

Faeroese

yvirhøvur (altogether, as a whole), tilsamans (altogether, as a whole). (various references)

Finnish

ylipäänsä (generally, in general), ylimalkaan (as a rule, generally), yleensä katsoen (taken as a whole), suurin piirtein (by and large). (various references)

French

dans l'ensemble. (various references)

German

soweit (as far as, by and large, insofar as, that much, thus far, up to now), insgesamt (all in all, altogether, by and large, collectively, in the round, overall, together), überhaupt (after all, altogether, anyhow, anyway, as a whole, at all, generally, in general). (various references)

Greek 

γενικά (altogether, broadly, generally, in general, in principle). (various references)

Hebrew 

כללית (generally). (various references)

Hungarian

nagyjából (broadly, by and large, roughly, taking it by and large, thereabouts), egészben véve (first and last, taking it by and large), egészében (at large, en masse, to the full), összességében (by and large, in total). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

凡そ正しい (be right on the whole). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

およそた� しい (be right on the whole). (various references)

Manx

trooid as trooid (altogether, broadly speaking, implicit, implicitly, in the main, roughly speaking, taken all round). (various references)

Pig Latin

onay ethay olewhay

Romanian

dupã toate consideraţiile, în general (altogether, as a rule, broadly speaking, by and large, first and last, for the main, generally, generically, in the gross, in the main), în ansamblu (upon the whole). (various references)

Russian 

в целом (all in all, as a whole, at large, upon the whole). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u celosti (altogether, completely, en bloc, full: in full, great, totally, whole: on the whole, wholly). (various references)

Swedish

på det hela taget (all in all, first and last, overall), överhuvudtaget. (various references)

Turkish

her şeyi hesaba katarak (all around, all round), genellikle (as a general rule, as a rule, at large, by and large, exoterically, for the most part, generally, in general, largely, normally, ordinarily, usually). (various references)

Ukrainian

врешті-решт (at the end, finally), загалом (all in all, altogether, any, anywhere, by and large, in general, in sum, totally). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: howlet, towhee, townee, woolen.

-5 letters: helot, hotel, lento, leone, lethe, newel, nohow, owlet, thole, towel, tween, wheel, wheen, whole.