together

Coherent; well-organized.

Adjective

  1. Coherent; well-organized.
    • He’s really together.
    • Youthful, former fashion model & dancer needs to find a serious, together individual to call his own. - 1991 April 19, Russell T. Hartsaw, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

    Antonyms: disorganized incoherent untogether

Origin

From Late Middle English together, from earlier togedere, togadere, from Old English tōgædere (“together”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōgadura, *tegadura, from Proto-Germanic *tō (“to”) + *gadar (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, keep”), equivalent to to-₂ + gather. Cognate with Scots thegither (“together”), Old Frisian togadera (whence West Frisian togearre (“together”)), Dutch tegader (“together”), Middle Low German tōgāder (“together”), Middle High German zegater (“together”). Compare also Old English ætgædere (“together”), Old English ġeador (“together”). More at gather.

Forms

more together most together togither

Derived

untogether

Adverb

  1. At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity.
    • We went to school together.
    • We can't all talk together; let's take turns politely.
    • […]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and...
  2. Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
    • He put all the parts together.
    • Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne...
    • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge...
  3. In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
    • Bob and Andy went into business together. Jenny and Mark have been together since they went on holiday to Mexico.
    • A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. - 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter...
  4. Without intermission or interruption; continuously; uninterruptedly.
    • It has been raining four days together
    • He would weep for hours together, and I verily believe that to the very end this spoilt child of life thought his weak tears in some way efficacious. - 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann,...

Forms

togither

Synonyms

at the same time concurrently collectively jointly

Antonyms

apart

Derived

all together all together now altogether band together bang some heads together bash together birds of a feather flock together birds of the feather flock together bring together bunch together bundle together bunk together call together cement together clap together close together club together cobble together come together coming together cram together crowd together draw together falling together