different between whole vs compleat
whole
English
Alternative forms
- hole (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English h?l (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”) (compare West Frisian hiel, Low German heel/heil, Dutch heel, German heil, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hel, Norwegian Nynorsk heil), from Proto-Indo-European *kóylos (“healthy, whole”). Compare Welsh coel (“omen”), Breton kel (“omen, mention”), Old Prussian kails (“healthy”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (c?l?, “healthy, unhurt”). Related to hale, health, hail, hallow, heal, and holy.
The spelling with wh-, introduced in the 15th century, was for disambiguation with hole, and was absent in Scots.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??l/, [h???], [h???]
- (US) IPA(key): /ho?l/, [ho??]
- Homophone: hole
- Rhymes: -??l
Adjective
whole (comparative wholer or more whole, superlative wholest or most whole)
- Entire, undivided.
- Synonyms: total; see also Thesaurus:entire
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- Used as an intensifier.
- I brought a whole lot of balloons for the party. She ate a whole bunch of french fries.
- 2016, Rae Carson, Like a River Glorious, HarperCollins (?ISBN):
- There, a huge blue heron stands sentry like a statue, eye on the surface, waiting for his next meal to wriggle by. A lone grassy hill overlooks it all, well above the flood line, big enough to pitch a whole mess of tents [on].
- 2011, Keith Maillard, Looking Good: Difficulty at the Beginning, Brindle and Glass (?ISBN):
- I'm thinking, thanks a whole fuck of a lot, Robert. You could have laid that on me weeks ago.
- Sound, uninjured, healthy.
- Synonyms: hale, well; see also Thesaurus:healthy
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, X, lines 5-6
- Here, with one balm for many fevers found, / Whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound.
- (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
- (mining) As yet unworked.
Translations
Adverb
whole (comparative more whole, superlative most whole)
- (colloquial) In entirety; entirely; wholly.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:completely
Translations
Noun
whole (plural wholes)
- Something complete, without any parts missing.
- Synonyms: entireness, totality; see also Thesaurus:entirety
- Meronym: part
- An entirety.
Translations
Derived terms
Further reading
- All and whole — Linguapress online English grammar
References
- whole at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Howle, howel
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compleat
English
Verb
compleat (third-person singular simple present compleats, present participle compleating, simple past and past participle compleated)
- Archaic spelling of complete.
- This I was forc'd to before I had executed half my De?ign, for the Machinery was entirely wanting to compleat it.
- 1776, the Declaration of Independence, written largely by Thomas Jefferson:
- He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation...
Adjective
compleat (not comparable)
- Archaic spelling of complete.
- 1680, Robert Filmer, Patriarcha
- in that Family he might have compleat Oeconomical Power
- 1919, Daisy Ashford, The Young Visiters Chapter 3
- Mr Salteena had put on a compleat evening suit as he thought it was the correct idea
- 1680, Robert Filmer, Patriarcha
Latin
Verb
compleat
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of comple?
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