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Antonyms for whole ball of wax


Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : waks
Phonetic Transcription : wæks



Definition of whole ball of wax

Origin :
  • "substance made by bees," Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wakhsan (cf. Old Saxon, Old High German wahs, Old Norse vax, Dutch was, German Wachs); cognate with Old Church Slavonic vasku, Lithuanian vaškas, Polish wosk, Russian vosk "wax" (but these may be from Germanic). Waxworks "exhibition of wax figures representing famous or notorious persons" first recorded 1796.
  • As in gross : adj whole
  • As in whole : noun total made up of parts
  • As in full monty : noun the whole thing
  • As in aggregate : noun collection
  • As in all : noun whole; totality
  • As in entirety : noun wholeness, whole
  • As in everything : noun entirety

Synonyms for whole ball of wax

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