一体
いったい
(1) one object, one body, (2) what on earth?
Meanings
- (1) one object
- one body
- (2) what on earth?
- really?
- (3) generally
- (what) the heckadv.before an interrogative; forms an emphatic question
- (why) in the world
- (who) on earth
- (where) the hell
- (how) the hell
- one objectn.
- one unit
- one group
- one mass
- one formn.
- one style
- one format
- one fashion
- one Buddhist imagen.
- one carving
- one sculpture
- one corpsen.
- one sample (of bones, remains, etc.)
- generallyadv.also as ~に
- in general
- on the whole
- by and large
- for the most part
- strictly speakingadv.dated
- in the first place
- originally
- to begin with