Meaning

5 senses
  1. Entire; relating to the whole of something.

    The total book is rubbish from start to finish. The total number of votes cast is 3,270.

    ganz, gesamt

    це́лыйcélyj, весьvesʹ

  2. Complete; absolute.

    He is a total failure.

    komplett, total

    по́лныйpólnyj, тота́льныйtotálʹnyj

    constituting the full quantity or extent; complete

  3. Defined on all possible inputs.

    The Ackermann function is one of the simplest and earliest examples of a total computable function that is not primitive recursive.

  4. (broadly)Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.

  5. Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.

Examples

421 sentences
  1. You have our total support, Tom.

    Ти маєш нашу повну підтримку, Томе. — deniko

    deDu hast unsere volle Unterstützung, Tom. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. What is the total number of students?

    Яке загальне число студентів? — deniko

    ruКаково общее число учеников? — Hellerick

    deWie viele Schüler sind es insgesamt? — jakov

  3. We sat in total silence.

    Ми сиділи в повній тиші. — deniko

    ruМы сидели в полной тишине. — shanghainese

    deWir saßen in völliger Stille. — mayabe

  4. It's all total nonsense.

    Цілковита дурня. — bicolino34

    ruВсё это полнейшая чепуха. — al_ex_an_der

  5. Tom's car was totaled.

    Машина Тома розбилася вщент. — deniko

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
entire:
complete:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
entire:
complete:

Origin

From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus

From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis, the former element of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan touto (“community, city-state”), Umbrian 𐌕𐌏𐌕𐌀𐌌 (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þēod (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.

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Forms

more total, most total
Comparativemore total Lesson
Superlativemost total Lesson

regular

Synonyms

47 synonyms
entire:entireB1
Close in meaning
  • complete in extent or degree and in every particular:full
  • constituting the full quantity or extent; complete:entirefull

Antonyms

13 antonyms

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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