altogether
n. degreen. completely or totally. You use it to say that something is finished or that you are considering everything at once.
n. completely, entirely, or in total. Used to indicate the absolute degree of a state or to summarize a collection of items or factors.
The two situations are altogether different.
After three failed attempts to fix the old car, he decided to stop driving it altogether.
While the individual components of the plan were sound, the project failed because the team lacked an altogether cohesive strategy for implementation.
From Middle English altogeder, altogedere, equivalent to al- (“all”) + together. Cognate with Scots awthegither (“altogether”), Middle High German alzegater (“altogether”), Dutch altegaar. Compare also Old English ealġeador, eallġeador (“altogether”), West Frisian allegearre (“altogether”). More at together. The noun sense (nakedness): was popularized in George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby.
Typically placed before an adjective or at the end of a clause to indicate completeness.
They were all together different.They were altogether different.'Altogether' means completely, while 'all together' means everyone or everything in one group.