Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Wholly; completely: entirely satisfied with the meal.
- adv. Solely or exclusively: He was entirely to blame.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Entire.
- Wholly; completely; fully; without exception or division: as, the money is entirely lost.
- Without admixture or qualification; unreservedly; heartily; sincerely; faithfully.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully.
- adv. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. without any others being included or involved
- adv. to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
Etymologies
- entire + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Co., they entirely eliminate the whole bunch from any part or lot in the issue on which they have essayed to speak with such authority, but whose main point, whose essential elements they have _entirely misunderstood_, and hence have treated in a way that is wholly at variance with the truth in the premises, and it is the truth that we are looking for.”
“I am here entirely -- _entirely_ of my own accord.”
“He admits also that Socialists and revolutionary unionists are inspired with an entirely new attitude towards society and government and indorses as _entirely sound_ certain expressions from Haywood and Bohn's pamphlet which had been violently attacked by reformist Socialists and conservative unionists.”
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
“Stylist Annabel Tollman remarked that she hates the term entirely and model Maggie Rizer said she "thinks the industry is probably over-compensating a bit.”
The Huffington Post: WATCH: Fashion Crowd Weighs In On Plus-Size Models
“Tyson disputed the finding, but rather than scrap the label entirely, it worked with the department to devise a new label -- Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics that impact antibiotic resistance in humans -- that was unveiled in December.”
“While not rejecting the term entirely, I can sympathise with a weariness about the frequency with which the words ‘loophole’ and ‘technicality’ are used to dismiss important rules of law.”
“This is, I suppose, a view of the purpose of art that would most readily be called "moral," and I would not repudiate the term entirely, but I think that "existential" would be a far better term, for "moral" carries with it the suggestion of some rigid prescription, of a limited and coercive point of view, which is not the way great literature works.”
“Then maybe we should drop the term entirely," Gail said, "and just stick with duty.”
“In their wisdom and I use the word entirely without irony the members of the Cannes jury awarded this year's Palme d'Or to Terrence Malick's majestic and long-awaited film”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Even though he concedes that this is not an accurate portrayal of what religious freedom actually means, Seiple thinks it would be better to avoid the term entirely and speak in terms of "peace, justice, honor, mercy, and compassion.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘entirely’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Individual design
consider, individuation, entirely, feasible, narrowness, sought out, instance, heterogeneous, apparently, bias, intermediary
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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Individual Design
apparently, individuation, entirely, feasible, moderate, narrowness, advance, biases
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Victorian female english
Use this words and become a young lady from some of Jane Austen's books.
coquettish, acquaintance, agreeable, delightful, entirely, sweetest, particularly, pretty, indeed, dearest, pleasant, marriage and 58 more...
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Words i could use in my book
promotion, preferment, amuse, defence, oppose, rape, argument, protect, attack, sex, intercourse, sexual intercourse and 23 more...
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stories
edge
mysterious
unwilling
sacrifice
hummingbirds
stingray
suit
spine
delighted
random
sighedge, mysterious, sacrifice, spine, random, stingray, hummingbirds, unwilling, suit, sigh, delighted, childish and 34 more...
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SasuSaku's list
gloomy, morose, sulk, ear-kissing, sexual activity, sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex, attack, protect, oppose, argument and 27 more...
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simply ♥
autumn, northanger, irksome, fancy, entirely, protestation, death's, violent, miscreant, labyrinthine, dismal, sincerely and 13 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for entirely.

uselessness Striker
I flew single engine fighters in the Air Force, but this plane has four engines.
It's an entirely different kind of flying altogether.
Dr. Rumack and Randy (in unison)
It's an entirely different kind of flying. Apr 26, 2007