total

1. 1.

   the whole amount

   Synonymssumtotalityaggregate

   Broaderwhole
2. 2.

   a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers

   Synonymssumamount

   Broaderquantity

   Narrowergrand totalsubtotal

1. 1.

   constituting the full quantity or extent; complete

   “an entire town devastated by an earthquake”

   “gave full attention”

   “a total failure”

   Synonymsentirefull

   Similarwhole
2. 2.

   complete in extent or degree and in every particular

   “a full game”

   “a total eclipse”

   “a total disaster”

   Synonymsfull

   Similarcomplete

Other forms of total

plural

totals·

past tense or participle

totalled

present participle

totalling

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about total

What does total mean?

total means "add up in number or quantity". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in total?

total has 2 syllables: to-tal. The stress falls on "to". In IPA it is /ˈtoʊtəl/.

What is another word for total?

Close synonyms include number, add up, come, amount, tot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is total a common word?

total is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.