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wholle

wholle is the obsolete spelling of whole.

Meaning of whole

Adjective

whole (comparative wholer or more whole, superlative wholest or most whole)

  1. Entire, undivided.
    • I ate a whole fish.
    1. Used as an intensifier.
      • I brought a whole lot of balloons for the party. She ate a whole bunch of french fries.
  2. Sound, uninjured, healthy.
    • He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state.
    Synonyms:
    hale, well, all oak and iron bound, buxom, fit, freck, hail, hale and hearty, healthy, in the pink of health
  3. From which none of its constituents has been removed.
    • whole wheat; whole milk
  4. As yet unworked.

See all 8 meanings of whole

Forms of wholle

comparativewholler
superlativewhollest

Questions about wholle

What is wholle the obsolete spelling of?
Wholle is the obsolete spelling of whole.

Words near wholle in the dictionary

  1. wholist
  2. wholistic
  3. wholistically
  4. wholists
  5. wholl
  6. wholle
  7. wholler
  8. whollest
  9. wholly
  10. Wholock
  11. wholphin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wholle (page history and authors); whole (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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