Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Noun

Adverb

Adverb

The word "whole" can be used as adjective, adjective, noun, adverb and adverb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

fractional ground half half part partial

Derived Terms

20 whole dollars a whole 'nother a whole nother an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind as a whole committee of the whole double whole double whole note go the whole hog go the whole pile go whole hog have one's whole life ahead of one have the whole bakery heart-whole make whole mean the whole world to on the whole one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch out of whole cloth part-whole bias part-whole model put one's whole pussy into quadruple whole quadruple whole note run the whole show smoke the whole pack the whole bang shoot the whole caboodle the whole nine yards the whole shop the whole while the whole world the whole world and his dog twenty whole dollars unwholesome upon the whole upon the whole matter whole bag of tricks whole ball of wax whole blood whole boiling whole box of tricks whole chebang whole child whole cloth whole enchilada whole food whole gale whole gip whole grain whole gyp whole hog whole kit and caboodle whole kit and kaboodle whole language whole life order whole life tariff whole lung lavage whole milk whole note whole number whole package whole paycheck whole plate whole rest whole shebang whole shitting match whole shooting match whole smash whole snipe whole step whole tone whole undern whole wide world whole-ass whole-blood coagulation time whole-footed whole-genome duplication whole-gip whole-grain whole-gyp whole-handedly whole-hearted whole-heartedly whole-heartedness whole-length whole-life whole-life order whole-skinned whole-souled whole-time whole-timer whole-tone scale whole-wheat wholehearted wholemeal wholesale wholesaler wholesome wholewheat with whole skin

Distinct From

part

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

concept conception construct object physical object

Type Of (IsA)

concept object

Made Of

parts

Parts (Meronyms)

part

Receives Action

made up of parts

Related Terms

complete completeness entire entirety healthy missing sound uninjured wholly

Similar Terms

complete entire entire full full length full page full-length full-page healthy intact intact integral livelong livelong total undiversified undivided undivided uninjured

Synonym Network

altogether hale unanimous unscathed

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