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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unwholly en · ADV

Etymology

From unwhole + -ly or un- + wholly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a way that is not whole; partially, incompletely.
    • ...but the growth of the house from the blueprint to the completed building is a process not unwholly like that of the growth of the kitten into a cat... 1971, Kenneth Ewart Boulding, Collected Papers:
    • The task was a novel and not unwholly congenial one, but he finally got the attention of a saleswoman and made his wishes known. 1911, Harper's Magazine:

Synonyms

partly