Definition of "on the whole" []

• For the most part; apart from some insignificant details. (adverb)

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• "The religious innovations of Luther were on the whole successfully opposed by Johann III of the Wittelsbach family, the administrator of the diocese (1507-38); in 1524 he took part in the assembly of the"
• "The fact is that the media, as well as academia and even organized religion, is on the whole super-phobic about these possibilities being provable."
• "Starbases on the whole are among the safest places in the galaxy because the control of the environment is, of necessity, so strict."