wholly

adv

1. entirely, all, completely, purely; totally, stone, perfectly, plenarily, fully; comprehensively, universally, inclusively; aggregately, collectively; as a whole, in all, all in all, in the main, Latin, in toto; lock, stock, and barrel; Inf. hook, line, and sinker; bag and baggage; nothing short of, 100%, every whit, every inch, to the nth degree; in a body, en masse, all together.

2. thoroughly, from the ground up, to a nicety, extensively, throughout; through and through, backward and forward; in all respects, in every respect, from first to last, from head to foot, cap-a-pie, from top to toe, from A to Z, Brit. from A to Zed; utterly, grossly, root and branch, quite, absolutely, altogether; fundamentally, actually, really, truly, verily, essentially, radically; unqualifiedly, unconditionally, unmitigatedly, unreservedly; enthusiastically, heart and soul, whole hog, Sl. all the way, Sl. like mad, Sl. like crazy.

3. unequivocally, positively, clearly, unambiguously, explicitly, expressly; categorically, flatly, downright, out-and-out, outright, all-out, straight-out.