I try to formulate a minimal form of meaning holism, which is a set of innocuous platitudes, comparable to the platitudes about truth which appear in the so-called deflationary or minimalist conception of truth. I do not claim, however, that the platitudes about holism are all there is to holism. I shall try to show that one has to go beyond the platitudes to a more substantial meaning holism, which, nevertheless is not as strong as to constitute the frightening radical doctrines of meaning holism. In other words, it seems to me that a moderately strong form of the doctrine is acceptable and needed in the theory of meaning.