Wiktionary
as a whole
adv. (context idiom English) Considered all together
WordNet
as a whole
adj. considered altogether; "the country at large"; "I enjoyed the play as a whole though I thought the acting could have been better" [syn: as a whole(ip), at large(ip), in general(ip)]
Usage examples of "as a whole".
And taken as a whole, the numbers told a very different story: of a program that had blundered from one failure to another, never even coming close to its goals.