Definitions for wholes

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wholes whole

Spelling: [hohl]

IPA: /hoʊl/

Wholes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in wholes (ehlosw).

Definitions for wholes

noun

1. the whole assemblage of parts or elements belonging to a thing; the entire quantity, account, extent, or number:
2. a thing complete in itself, or comprising all its parts or elements.
3. an assemblage of parts associated or viewed together as one thing; a unitary system.

Idioms

1. as a whole, all things included or considered; altogether:
2. on / upon the whole, in view of all the circumstances; after consideration. disregarding exceptions; in general:
3. out of whole cloth, without foundation in fact; fictitious:

adjective

1. comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total:
2. containing all the elements properly belonging; complete:
3. undivided; in one piece:
4. Mathematics. integral, or not fractional.
5. not broken, damaged, or impaired; intact:
6. uninjured or unharmed; sound:
7. pertaining to all aspects of human nature, especially one's physical, intellectual, and spiritual development:

Origin of wholes

before 900; Middle English hole, hool (adj. and noun), Old English hāl (adj.); cognate with Dutch heel, German heil, Old Norse heill; see hale¹, Examples for wholes

That wholeness and roundness, in which she had rejoiced, had gone from her altogether.

And so to her, Richard, your crippling has come to be dearer than any other man's wholeness.

It is against their wholeness that the incomplete impressions of the recent past or present are juxtaposed.

In direct praxis, the wholeness of the being is externalized.

The elements of beauty are design, wholeness, and significance.

“Where there is no desire or pursuit, there is no wholeness, but there are satisfactory lesser states, fragments,” Vidal wrote.

Why should the wholeness of that wild youth of his change to this?

Living things start with this wholeness from the beginning of their career.

In these there is a wholeness, a strength, and a rapture, which still demands an explanation.

What has been grossly overlooked throughout age immemorial is that both aspects need each other for wholeness!