Altogether vs Lastly - What's the difference?
altogether | lastly |
Without exception; wholly; completely.
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(sequence)
(discourse marker) (Used to signal that the speaker is about to yield control of the conversation).
As adverbs the difference between altogether and lastly
is that altogether is without exception; wholly; completely while lastly is (sequence).altogether
English
Adverb
(-)- Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
citation, passage=A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward. }}
Synonyms
* wholly * completely * (on the whole) all in allDerived terms
* in the altogetherlastly
English
Adverb
(-)- Firstly, that's illegal; secondly, it has serious disadvantages; thirdly, it's not necessary; and lastly , did I mention that it's illegal?