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Synonyms & Antonyms for wholly
Synonyms
all, all of, all over, altogether, clean, completely, dead, enough, entire, entirely, even, exactly, fast, flat, full, fully, heartily, out, perfectly, plumb [chiefly dialect], quite, soundly, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, well, wide
Antonyms
half, halfway, incompletely, part, partially, partly
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Facebook’s impact on democracy has not been wholly positive. — The Economist, "What is Libra?," 12 July 2019 But Algren resembles the two masters only superficially, in his antic grotesquerie; any deeper affinity is wholly wanting. — Algis Valiunas, National Review, "Nelson Algren: Chicago’s Bard of the Downtrodden," 11 July 2019 These are the achievements that wholly define Pozzo. — SI.com, "Vittorio Pozzo: Metodo, Mussolini, Meazza & the Difficult Memory of a Two-Time World Cup Winner," 11 July 2019 Rarely, in the case of Brazil, are education or other kinds of activities wholly unavailable, although sometimes there is a significant gender difference in terms of who gets offered what. — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, "How Detained Children Are Treated Around the World," 10 July 2019 The museum is the only one in the world wholly dedicated to telling the history of Jews in the American South. — Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, "A museum on Southern Jews moves its eclectic 4,000-item collection across state lines," 9 July 2019 The Trump administration has argued that these tariffs are wholly tied to the Airbus-Boeing case and are separate from the other trade spat with the EU. — Jen Kirby, Vox, "Cheese and whiskey are targeted in US’s latest proposed tariffs on EU," 2 July 2019 The show has done a good job of not sticking exclusively to its original Spielberg/King inspirations, and the key wholly acknowledged influences this time around are led by the George Romero zombie classics and James Cameron's Terminator. — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Stranger Things' Season 3: TV Review," 30 June 2019 Silence eats at the photo but never wholly devours it. — Jason Parham, WIRED, "Depth of Field: The Quiet Force of YouTuber Etika's Gaze," 27 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'wholly.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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