English-German translations for on the whole

• überhaupt
  Überhaupt sollten die Kriterien des Berichts Kindermann auch auf die Ostsee angewandt werden. On the whole, the criteria in Mr Kindermann's report ought to be applied to the Baltic Sea, too.
• allzumal
• im allgemeinen
  Im Allgemeinen sind die Fahrgäste im Kraftomnibusverkehr insgesamt wirtschaftlich schlechter gestellt. More generally, bus and coach passengers are, on the whole, less well off.
  . – Der sich in der EU vollziehende demografische Wandel ist im Allgemeinen für die Gesellschaft ein Vor- und kein Nachteil. . – The demographic changes taking place in the EU, are, on the whole, beneficial rather than detrimental to society.

Definition of on the whole

• For the most part; apart from some insignificant details

Examples

• The language was wrong for the period, but, on the whole, I enjoyed the film.

Related words

• Someone who interferes with others
• the one who travels
• there are none so blind as those who will not see
• there are none so deaf as those who cannot hear
• there’s none so deaf as those who will not hear
• there's none so deaf as those who will not hear
• let him who is without sin cast the first stone
• he who is absent is always in the wrong