On-the-whole Definition

On-the-whole Sentence Examples

• The summer is hot, but on the whole the climate is very healthy.

• The climate is moist and sometimes oppressively hot, though pleasant on the whole.

• Between optimism and pessimism is the theory of "meliorism," according to which the world on the whole makes progress in goodness.

• The weather on the whole is remarkably dry.

• The climate of the east coast is on the whole considerably more arctic than that of the west coast on corresponding latitudes; the land is much more completely snowcovered, and the snow-line goes considerably lower.