wholly

[hoh-lee, hohl-lee] /ˈhoʊ li, ˈhoʊl li/

adverb

entirely; totally; altogether; quite.

to the whole amount, extent, etc.

so as to comprise or involve all.

Origin

1250-1300; Middle English holliche. See whole, -ly

Can be confused

holey, holy, wholly.

Examples from the web for wholly

The ozone decision was jarring because it was wholly unexpected.
Even a wholly technocratic government can never fully escape politics.
No single pathogen seems wholly responsible for the disease, they've found.
Wheeler was one of the first prominent physicists seriously to propose that reality might not be a wholly physical phenomenon.
wholly non-intuitive interface and small, pokey buttons.
When any wholly uneducated individual commits some deed of savage.
Hungarians seeking to buy forints had been battling with a foreign-exchange market that had almost wholly seized up.
As for overseas production, the article doesn't mention how many brand name drugs are produced wholly are partly overseas.
Mould by a charisma and wholly self centered they are actually borderline animals.
Because the communications occurred wholly intrastate, however, no federal law criminalized the conduct.

British Dictionary definitions for wholly

/ˈhəʊllɪ/

adverb

completely, totally, or entirely

without exception; exclusively

Word Origin and History for wholly

adv.

c.1300, probably from Old English *hallice; see whole + -ly (2).