on the whole

Speech parts

1. on the whole - Adverb

2. on the whole - Phrase

Meaning

with everything considered (and neglecting details)

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Synonyms

altogether all in all by and large all things considered throughout generally commonly largely mainly mostly primarily normally overall regularly historically
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Antonyms

firstly originally initially slightly occasionally barely
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Examples

altogether, I'm sorry it happened Source: Internet

all in all, it's not so bad Source: Internet

According to Henri Hude (1990, II, p. 142), who supports himself on the whole of Bergson's works as well as his now published courses, accusing him of pantheism is a "counter-sense". Source: Internet

A Joe Biden presidency may on the whole be beneficial, and even marginally in India’s favour on the trade front, CARE added. Source: Internet

An important consequence is that every metric space admits partitions of unity and that every continuous real-valued function defined on a closed subset of a metric space can be extended to a continuous map on the whole space ( Tietze extension theorem ). Source: Internet

Anyway, the Legion got in on the whole thing, with two issues by Tom Peyer and Sean Phillips, featuring the Justice Legion L, the heroes of the United Planets Cluster. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

on the whole

Close letter words and terms

on the way to on the way up on the web on the wind on the wing on the wings of the wind