Whole crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Whole” are RIGHT, TOTAL or SOLID, with 5 letters. Below are 59 answers from 3 to 13 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

ALL 3 letters · adverb

to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely “the directions were all wrong”

FULL 4 letters · adjective

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal “a full glass”

RIGHT 5 letters · adverb

to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely “she felt right at home”

ENTIRE 6 letters · adjective

constituting the full quantity or extent; complete “an entire town devastated by an earthquake”

TOTALLY 7 letters · adverb

to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely “a totally new situation”

COMPLETE 8 letters · verb

bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements “A child would complete the family”

UNANIMOUS 9 letters · adjective

acting together as a single undiversified whole

COMPLETELY 10 letters · adverb

to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely “it was completely different from what we expected”

INTEGRATION 11 letters · noun

the act of combining into an integral whole

INCORPORATED 12 letters · adjective

formed or united into a whole

CONSOLIDATION 13 letters · noun

the act of combining into an integral whole “a consolidation of two corporations”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, FULL, UNIT, HALE and BITE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: F → FULL · U → UNIT · H → HALE · B → BITE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, RIGHT, TOTAL, SOLID, WORLD, PIECE and FUSED all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: R → RIGHT · T → TOTAL · S → SOLID · W → WORLD · P → PIECE · F → FUSED. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, ENTIRE, INTACT, UNHURT, PUBLIC, MERGED and KERNEL all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: E → ENTIRE · I → INTACT · U → UNHURT · P → PUBLIC · M → MERGED · K → KERNEL. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “wholes” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “whole” means

• adjective: including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete (“gave his whole attention”)
• adjective: (of siblings) having the same parents (“whole brothers and sisters”)
• adjective: not injured or harmed
• adjective: exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health (“whole in mind and body”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as WHOLE, and words whose definition is WHOLE. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.