total
UK /ˈtəʊ.tl̩/ · US /ˈtoʊ.tl̩/ noun, adjective, verb
Forms totals totaling totalling totaled totalled totall
- noun An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts. “A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.”
- noun (informal, mathematics) Sum. “The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.”
- adjective 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.”
- adjective (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute. “He is a total failure.”
- adjective (mathematics, of a function) 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.”
- adjective (mathematics, more generally, of a relation R on X × Y) Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
- adjective (mathematics, of a partial order ≤) Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.
- verb (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of. “When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.”
- verb To equal a total of; to amount to. “That totals seven times so far.”
- verb (transitive, US, slang) To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss) “Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.”
- verb (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to. “It totals nearly a pound.”
Synonyms
sum entire full whole absolute complete utter abject frightful prize clean arrant categoric categorical consummate decided downright full-blown full-bore full-on totality aggregate amount number add up come tot tot up sum up summate
Antonyms
attenuated conditional depleted half-assed half-baked hollowed out incomplete limited mitigated nontotal partial relative
Etymology
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.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss. " Total darkness." "To undergo myself the total crime." Milton. Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1.
- noun The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.
Etymology [F., fr. LL. totalis, fr. L. tolus all,whole. Cf. Factotum, Surtout, Teetotum.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “total”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details