used to emphasize how large or important something is

I'm going to be talking about a whole range of things today.

We are going to have a whole bunch of people over tomorrow night.

I can't afford it—that's the whole point.

We offer a whole variety of weekend breaks.

I think the whole idea is ridiculous.

Owls usually swallow their prey whole .

Peel the small onions, but leave them whole.

Taken as a whole, the image is slightly disappointing.

The subjects of the curriculum form a coherent whole.

Harmony in music is essentially about the right relationship of the parts to the whole.

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