total
/ˈtəʊt(ə)l
/adjective
1 [attributive] Comprising the whole number or amount: a total cost of £4,000...
- The cost of the steel and its heat treatment amounts generally to less than a quarter of the total cost of the whole tool.
- You can't predict with any accuracy the total amount of anything that the whole country's going to need.
- The applicants' bill of costs is for a very large amount, with total fees of about $200,000.
Synonyms
entire, complete, whole, full, comprehensive, combined, aggregate, gross, overall, composite, integral
2Complete; absolute: it is a matter of total indifference to me a total stranger...
- Wilkinson is a desperately complex person, driven by a need for absolute perfection and total control in his life.
- So the claim that there are conservatives who believe in some sort of absolute liberty is a total straw man.
- Now the sort of response that you are offering is in absolute total contrast to everything that we have heard so far.
Synonyms
complete, utter, absolute, thorough, perfect, downright, out-and-out, outright, thoroughgoing, all-out, sheer, positive, prize, rank, pure, dyed-in-the-wool, deep-dyed, real, consummate, veritable, unmitigated, unqualified, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unequivocal, full, unlimited, limitless, infinite, ultimate, through and through, in-depth;
unbroken, undivided, uninterrupted
British informal right, proper
archaic arrant
noun
The whole number or amount of something: he scored a total of thirty-three points in total, 200 people were interviewed...
- In total he has worked in the Caribbean for a total of three years at various times during his career.
- In total with both actions, it could take five years and potentially longer.
- In total, at the end of today, five people were sentenced to a total of 21 years.
Synonyms
sum, sum total, grand total, aggregate;
whole, entirety, totality, summation, result
verb (totals, totalling, totalled; US totals, totaling, totaled)
1 [with object] Amount in number to: they were left with debts totalling £6,260...
- It has debts totalling hundreds of billions of dollars and there has been no investment in its infrastructure for more than 20 years.
- It also warned investors it had been hit by two bad debts totalling some £200,000.
- At the end of 2001, net debt totaled some $2.60 trillion.
Synonyms
add up to, amount to, mount up to, come to, run to, make, correspond to, equal, work out as, number;
British tot up to
1.1Add up the full number or amount of: the scores were totalled...
- Overall scores are computed by totaling the number of critical endorsements the respondent has made.
- Additionally, there was no difference in response rates if the partial and full responses are totaled.
- Instead of scanning every item individually, an RFID till would simply total up every item in your shopping trolley as it approached.
Synonyms
add, sum, count, reckon, tot, compute, work out, take stock of
2 [with object] informal, chiefly North American Damage (something, typically a vehicle) beyond repair; wreck: he almost totaled the car...
- And it appears to have totaled the vehicle, smashed in the back end and broke all the windows.
- Hull's vehicle was totaled and the train sustained $2,000 damage.
- For a long time, even after I'd totaled two vehicles in collisions with deer, I continued to hold a similar view.
Synonyms
wreck, crash, smash, destroy, damage beyond repair, demolish;
British write off
British informal prang
2.1Kill or severely injure (someone): we’d just totaled a couple of teenage boys...
- ‘Looks like you got totaled by a loser,’ the bartender laughed.
- When you start incurring damage on your car, the animations of your vehicle losing its parts like doors and hoods (and if you are totaled, bursting into a flaming wreck) are great.
Origin
Late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin totalis, from totum 'the whole', neuter of Latin totus 'whole, entire'. The verb, at first in the sense 'add up', dates from the late 16th century.