total
UK/ˈtəʊ.tl̩//ˈtoʊ.tl̩/
total noun: an amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
Noun
total (plural totals)
Adjective
total (comparative more total, superlative most total)
- Entire; relating to the whole of something.
- The total book is rubbish from start to finish. The total number of votes cast is 3,270.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been...1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- entire
- Complete; absolute.
- He is a total failure.
- Air waid! Wights out! Total bwackout!1942 November 21, A Tale of Two Kitties, spoken by Tweety
- Defined on all possible inputs.
- The Ackermann function is one of the simplest and earliest examples of a total computable function that is not primitive recursive.
- Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
- Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.
Verb
total (third-person singular simple present totals, present participle (US) totaling or (UK) totalling, simple past and past participle (US) totaled or (UK) totalled)
- To add up; to calculate the sum of.
- When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
- Synonyms:
- sum
- To equal a total of; to amount to.
- That totals seven times so far.
- Synonyms:
- make
- To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
- Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
- He acted real funny / He hocked up a rock and / It totaled my car!1972, Frank Zappa, “Billy the Mountain”
- To amount to; to add up to.
- It totals nearly a pound.
total meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
total in Hindi
- total, sum
- कुल kul, रक़म raqam, योग yog
- total, gross, whole
- सकल sakal
- total, summation
- मीज़ान mīzān
total in Tamil
- amount
- மொத்தம் mottam
total in Marathi
- एकूण
total in Urdu
- total
- کل kul
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- total in Bengali
- মীজান mījan, ঠিক ṭhik
- total in Telugu
- మొత్తము mottamu, లెక్క lekka, అన్ని anni, పూర్తి pūrti
- total in Malayalam
- മൊത്തം mottaṁ, ആകെ āke
- total in Kannada
- ಒಟ್ಟು, ಮೊತ್ತ, ಸಂಕಲನ, ಒಟ್ಟುಲೆಕ್ಕ
- total in Punjabi
- ਕੁੱਲ kull
- total in Gujarati
- બધું badhũ
- total in Odia
- ଥୋକ thoka
- total in Sanskrit
- सकल sakala
- total in Assamese
- মুঠ muth
- total in Nepali
- जम्मा jammā
- total in Tagalog
- kabuoan
- total in Arabic
- مَجْمُوع majmūʕ
- total in Malay
- jumlah
- total in Indonesian
- jumlah, keseluruhan, semesta, mutlak
- total in Persian
- کل kol
- total in Vietnamese
- tổng, tổng cộng, toàn bộ, hoàn toàn
Examples of total in a sentence
- Each member brought a unique musical influence to the total sound.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 145:
- GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Smashed up against a car at 3 AM, / The kids dressed up for basketball beat me in my head, / There's bum trash in my hall, and my place is ripped, / I totaled another amp, I'm calling in sick.1988, “Hyperstation”, in Daydream Nation, performed by Sonic Youth:
Synonyms of total
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Antonyms
Forms of total
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | totals |
| alternative form | totall |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more total |
| superlative | most total |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | totals |
| present participle US | totaling |
| present participle UK | totalling |
| past participle US | totaled |
| past US | totaled |
| past participle UK | totalled |
| past UK | totalled |
Origin of total
From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis, the former element of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan touto (“community, city-state”), Umbrian 𐌕𐌏𐌕𐌀𐌌 (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þēod (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.
Words formed from total
- grand total
- in total
- left total
- nontotal
- posttotal
- retotal
- right total
- subtotal
- sum-total
- sum total
- supertotal
- supratotal
- total allergy syndrome
- total base number
- total bases
- total body day
- total clearance
- total conversion
- total conversion mod
- total depravity
- total digestible nutrients
- total eclipse
- total-etch
- total football
- total function
- total group
- total hardness
- total internal reflection
- total internal reflexion
- totalise
- totalism
- totalitarian
- totality
- totalization
- totalize
- totally
- totalness
- total object
- total order
- total ordering relation
- total package
- total quality management
- total recall
- total return
- total return swap
- total revenue
- total ring of fractions
- total running time
- total shareholder return
- total station
- total story time
- total synthesis
- total up
- total war
- ultratotal
Phrases with total
- total loss
- total wars
- total groups
- total losses
- total orders
- total objects
- total returns
- total eclipses
- total revenues
- total stations
- total body days
- total functions
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Words that rhyme with total
Questions about total
- What does total mean?
- Total means an amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
- What is total in Hindi?
- Total in Hindi is कुल (kul), रक़म (raqam), योग (yog). See Total meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use total in a sentence?
- Each member brought a unique musical influence to the total sound.
- What part of speech is total?
- Total can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce total?
- Total is pronounced /ˈtəʊ.tl̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of total?
- The plural of total is totals.
Words near total in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: total (page history and authors); कुल (Hindi) (page history and authors); total (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); کل (Urdu) (page history and authors); ঠিক (Bengali) (page history and authors); total (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਕੁੱਲ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); બધું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଥୋକ (Odia) (page history and authors); सकल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); जम्मा (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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