to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; " he was wholly convinced"; " entirely satisfied with the meal"; " it was completely different from what we expected"; " was completely at fault"; " a totally new situation"; " the directions were all wrong"; " It was not altogether her fault"; " an altogether new approach"; (` whole' is often used informally for ` wholly' as in" a whole new idea")

In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.

To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully.

In a complete manner; entirely; fully.

Entirely; completely; perfectly; totally.

Entirely; completely; in all the parts or kinds.

Still she did not feel wholly at her ease with him. – The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. Dell

Carrie, he said with sudden passion, the possibility of you ever becoming like her is horrible- wholly horrible. – By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss

He felt that she had not wholly escaped him, after all; by and by he would go back and seek her favor by different means. – Vane of the Timberlands by Harold Bindloss

It may be impossible wholly to forget them. – Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn by George Tybout Purves

I've waited, Connie, to give him a chance to say to you what he had to say; I wanted you to hear it before making you wholly mine. – The Indian Drum by William MacHarg Edwin Balmer

No one knew why we had been summoned except Lyle and myself, and I did not know wholly. – Lorimer of the Northwest by Harold Bindloss

It might happen to be wholly true. – Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann

Yet it was not wholly an expression of relief. – The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum

You believe, as every good person does, that my father was wholly innocent. – Erema My Father's Sin by R. D. Blackmore

Oh, don't you see that you can trust me wholly? – A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath

Not until darkness wholly hid the sea did they turn from their sea- wide search for approaching danger. – The Boy Scouts on a Submarine by Captain John Blaine

Again she did not wholly understand his tone. – The Knave of Diamonds by Ethel May Dell

Alec had not said much in his letter; but what he did say was wholly to the point. – A Son of the Immortals by Louis Tracy

At the same moment, Noel by a sudden, wholly unexpected movement thrust her behind him. – The Keeper of the Door by Ethel M. Dell

They believed almost wholly in the machinery of government, and he believed in it not at all. – The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker

Between Henry Ashley, the men at East's, and his own studies, which he would not wholly neglect, William's evenings had a tolerably busy time of it. – Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Mrs. Henry Wood

But you haven't wholly learned yet. – Mrs. Red Pepper by Grace S. Richmond

But of this Armand was wholly unconscious. – El Dorado by Baroness Orczy

Until of late we never knew a difference, and the change that came was wholly my fault. – The Whirlpool by George Gissing

This consideration appears to me wholly foreign to the question under discussion. – Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 by David Ricardo