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as a whole
Definition
B2 when considered as a group and not in parts: The population as a whole is getting healthier.General
(Definition of as a whole from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Adapting and attuning to something
- Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
- Exceptional qualities, things and people
- Habitual and customary
- Habitual behaviour
- Particular and individual
- Plain and ordinary
- Standard and routine
- Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people
- Unique and unusual
- Unknown and unfamiliar
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SMART Thesaurus: General
Synonyms and related words:
- abstract adjective (GENERAL)
- abstraction noun
- across the board idiom
- all-round adjective
- all-rounder noun
- broad adjective (GENERAL)
- essence noun (IMPORTANCE)
- every determiner (ALL)
- general adjective (NOT DETAILED)
- general adjective (NOT LIMITED)
- generalist adjective, noun
- generally adverb
- impressionistic adjective
- literally adverb
- overall adverb, adjective
- portmanteau adjective
- primarily adverb
- principle noun (IDEA)
- sense noun (MEANING)
- simply adverb (IMPORTANT)
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