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English

Alternative forms

• totall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin t?t?lis, from t?tus (“all, whole, entire”), of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan ???????????????????? (touto, “community, city-state”), Umbrian ???????????????????? (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þ?od (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh? (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??.t?l/
• (General American) enPR: t??tl, IPA^(key): /?to?.t?l/, [t?o????], [t????]
• Rhymes: -??t?l

Noun

total (plural totals)

1. An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

   A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.

2. (informal, mathematics) Sum.

   The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

Synonyms

• (sum): sum

Derived terms

• subtotal

Translations

See also

• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

Adjective

total (comparative more total, superlative most total)

1. Entire; relating to the whole of something.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
2. (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.

3. (mathematics) (of a function) Defined on all possible inputs.

Synonyms

• (entire): entire, full, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
• (complete): absolute, complete, utter; see also Thesaurus:total

Derived terms

• total allergy syndrome
• total eclipse
• totalism
• totalitarian
• totality
• totally
• total order
• total war

Translations

Verb

total (third-person singular simple present totals, present participle (UK) totalling or (US) totaling, simple past and past participle (UK) totalled or (US) totaled)

1. (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.

   When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.

2. To equal a total of; to amount to.

   That totals seven times so far.

3. (transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)

   Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.

4. (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.

   It totals nearly a pound.

Synonyms

• (add up): add up, sum
• (demolish): demolish, trash, wreck

Translations

Anagrams

• lotta

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Adjective

total (epicene, plural totales)

1. total

Noun

total m (plural totales)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis, attested from the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /to?tal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /tu?tal/

Adjective

total (masculine and feminine plural totals)

1. total

Derived terms

• totalment

Related terms

• totalitat

Noun

total m (plural totals)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

References

Further reading

• “total” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “total” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “total” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology 1

From French total.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tota?l/, [t?o?t?æ??l]

Adjective

total

1. total

Inflection

Noun

total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)

1. total

Inflection

Etymology 2

Compound of to (“two”) and tal (“number”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /total/, [?t?ot?al]

Noun

total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)

1. two

Inflection

Synonyms

• 2-tal

French

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.tal/
• Homophones: totale, totales

Adjective

total (feminine singular totale, masculine plural totaux, feminine plural totales)

1. total
2. perfect

Antonyms

• (total): partiel

Noun

total m (plural totaux)

1. total

Related terms

• au total
• question totale
• sous-total
• totalement
• totaliser
• totalitaire
• totalité
• tout

Further reading

• “total” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Adjective

total m or f (plural totais)

1. complete, entire

Noun

total m (plural totais)

1. total

Further reading

• “total” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

total (not comparable)

1. total

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis, from totus.

Adjective

total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)

1. total

Derived terms

• totalskade
• totaltap

References

• “total” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis, from totus.

Adjective

total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)

1. total

Derived terms

• totalskadd
• totaltap

References

• “total” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Medieval Latin t?t?lis (“total”), from Latin t?tus (“whole”) + -?lis (“-al”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tu.?ta?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /to.?taw/

Adjective

total m or f (plural totais, comparable)

1. complete; entire (to the greatest extent)

   Synonyms: completo, inteiro

2. total (relating to the whole of something)

Antonyms

• (complete): incompleto, parcial

Noun

total m (plural totais)

1. total (amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts)

   Synonym: totalidade

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

From French total

Adjective

total m or n (feminine singular total?, masculine plural totali, feminine and neuter plural totale)

1. total

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin t?t?lis, from t?tus (“all, whole, entire”).

Adjective

total (plural totales)

1. total, complete, outright

Adverb

total

1. (colloquial) basically, so, in short (used to summarise)

Noun

total m (plural totales)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

See also

• todo

References

• “total” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From German total, from French total, from Latin totalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??t??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Adjective

total (not comparable)

1. total

Declension

References

• total in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Anagrams

• Lotta, lotta

English

Alternative forms

• outragious (archaic)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman outrageus, Middle French outrageus, from outrage; equivalent to outrage +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /a?t??e?d??s/
• Rhymes: -e?d??s

Adjective

outrageous (comparative more outrageous, superlative most outrageous)

1. Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, First Folio 1623:

     To be, or not to be, that is the Question: / Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer / The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, / Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them [...].

   • 2011, Paul Wilson, The Guardian, 19 Oct 2011:

     The Irish-French rugby union whistler Alain Rolland was roundly condemned for his outrageous decision that lifting a player into the air then turning him over so he falls on his head or neck amounted to dangerous play.

2. Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate. [from 14th c.]
   • 2004, David Smith, The Observer, 19 Dec 2004:

     Audience members praised McKellen, best known for Shakespearean roles and as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, for his show-stealing turn as Twankey in a series of outrageous glitzy dresses.

3. Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative. [from 18th c.]
   • 2001, Imogen Tilden, The Guardian, 8 Dec 2001:

     "It's something I really am quite nervous about," he admits, before adding, with relish: "You have to be a bit outrageous and challenging sometimes."

4. (now rare) Fierce, violent. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:

     For els my feeble vessell, crazd and crackt / Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes, / Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt [...].

Derived terms

• outrageously
• outrageousness

Related terms

• outrage

Translations

Further reading

• outrageous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• outrageous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.