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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WHOLLY, adv.
1. Entirely; completely; perfectly.
Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield.
2. Totally; in all the parts or kinds.
They employed themselves wholly in domestic life.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea" [syn: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole] [ant: part, partially, partly]

Merriam Webster's

adverb Etymology: Middle English hoolly, from hool whole Date: 14th century 1. to the full or entire extent ; completely <a wholly owned subsidiary> 2. to the exclusion of other things ; solely <a book dealing wholly with herbs>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. 1 entirely; without limitation or diminution (I am wholly at a loss). 2 purely, exclusively (a wholly bad example). Etymology: ME, f. OE (unrecorded) hallice (as WHOLE, -LY(2))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wholly Whol"ly, adv. 1. In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly. Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield. --Dryden. 2. To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully. They employed themselves wholly in domestic life. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You use wholly to emphasize the extent or degree to which something is the case. While the two are only days apart in age they seem to belong to wholly different generations... For urban areas this approach was wholly inadequate... = completely, entirely ADV: ADV adj, ADV with cl/group [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. 1. Totally, altogether, utterly. 2. Entirely, completely, fully, perfectly.

Moby Thesaurus

absolutely, across the board, all, all put together, altogether, as a body, as a whole, at large, at length, bodily, collectively, completely, comprehensively, corporately, en bloc, en masse, entirely, exclusively, exhaustively, faultlessly, flawlessly, fully, globally, hundred per cent, ideally, immaculately, impeccably, in a body, in all, in all respects, in bulk, in detail, in extenso, in full, in full measure, in its entirety, in particular, in the aggregate, in the gross, in the lump, in the mass, in toto, inclusively, infallibly, inside out, integrally, irreducibly, just right, largely, merely, minutely, on all counts, one and all, only, outright, particularly, perfectly, purely, roundly, simply, solely, specifically, spotlessly, thoroughly, to the hilt, totally, tout a fait, tout ensemble, unanalyzably, unconditionally, undividedly, unreservedly