1. Including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
   "the whole hog"; "a whole week"; "the baby cried the whole trip home"; "a whole loaf of bread"; "gave his whole attention"; "a whole wardrobe for the tropics"
    
2. Acting together as a single undiversified whole
   "The team moved as a whole unit";
   - solid, unanimous
    
3. (of siblings) having the same parents
   "whole brothers and sisters"
    
4. Not injured or harmed
   "Miraculously, all passengers emerged from the crash whole";
   - unharmed, unhurt, unscathed
    
5. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
   "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again";
   - hale

1. All of something including all its component elements or parts
   "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature"
    
2. An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
   "how big is that part compared to the whole?";
   - unit

1. To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely
   "a whole new idea";
   - wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, right, totes [informal]

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Derived forms: wholes

See also: complete, entire, full, full-length, full-page, healthy, intact, integral, integrity, livelong, total, undiversified, undivided, uninjured, unity, wholeness

Type of: article, concept, conception, construct, object, physical object

Antonym: fractional, half

Encyclopedia: Whole