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# wholly

«wholly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Completely; fully; entirely (wholly true, wholly owned)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Completely; fully; entirely (wholly true, wholly owned). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A formal word in exam and official language: «wholly responsible», «not wholly correct» (partly correct). In maths and logic, «wholly» means every part, 100%. Phrases: «wholly or partly», «not wholly», «wholly owned by».

### examples

- I am not wholly sure the answer is right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholly/#x1)
- The farm is wholly owned by the family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholly/#x2)
- The story is wholly made up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholly/#x3)
- She was wholly responsible for the mess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholly/#x4)
- The cake was wholly eaten in five minutes! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholly/#x5)
- His answer was not wholly wrong — part of it was right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholly/#x6)
- Its population, large though it was, was composed wholly of boys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholly/#x7)

### note

Spelling trap: «wholly» has double «l» and no «e» (from «whole»). Homophone: «holy» (sacred) and «holey» (full of holes) sound alike. Formal; everyday: «completely», «totally», «fully». In maths: «wholly» = the whole amount, 100%.

### In the corpora

- [Germany, with its capital Berlin, has the most people of any country wholly in Europe, about 84 million.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/7-europe-countries-and-capitals/8/)
- [Ukraine, with its capital Kyiv, is the largest country wholly in Europe, at about 600,000 square kilometres.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/7-europe-countries-and-capitals/14/)
- [Ukraine is the largest country wholly in Europe, because only about a quarter of Russia's land is in Europe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/17/)
- [And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly made to smoke; it shall not be eaten.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.127/)
- [And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given unto him from the children of Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.96/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wholly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.