Translation for "ingesamt" to english

Ingesamt

adverb

• overall
• altogether
• on the whole
• all in all
• by and large

Translation examples

overall adverb

Ingesamt erinnerten sie an Flußpferde, nur daß sie viel zu klein waren.
The overall aspect was like that of a hippopotamus - except that they were far too small.

on the whole adverb

Ingesamt gesehen wirkte es vertraut: Dies war die Landschaft vor zwanzig Millionen Jahren, scharf in seinen Erinnerungen, wenn auch in stark reduziertem Rahmen.
It was, on the whole, familiar: this was the landscape of twenty million years ago, sharpest in his memory, though in greatly reduced scale.