Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no part excluded or left out; whole: synonym: whole.
- adjective Constituting the full amount, extent, or duration.
- adjective Not broken, decayed, or divided; intact.
- adjective With no reservations or limitations; complete.
- adjective Not castrated.
- adjective Botany Not having an indented margin.
- adjective Archaic Unmixed or unalloyed; pure or homogenous.
- noun The whole; the entirety.
- noun An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Entirely; wholly; unreservedly: as, your entire loving brother.
- Whole; unbroken; undiminished; perfect; not mutilated; complete; having all its normal substance, elements, or parts: as, not an article was left entire.
- In botany, without toothing or division: applied to leaves, petals, etc.
- in heraldry, reaching the sides of the shield and apparently made fast to them: said of a bearing, such as a cross.
- Not castrated or spayed; uncut: as, an entire horse (that is, a stallion as distinguished from a gelding).
- Full; complete; undivided; wholly unshared, undisputed, or unmixed: as, the general had the entire command of the army; to have one's entire confidence.
- Essential; real; true.
- Interior; internal.
- noun The total; the whole matter or thing; entirety.
- noun A kind of malt liquor known also as
porter or Stout.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Entirely.
- noun (Brewing), engraving A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer.
- adjective Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient
- adjective Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.
- adjective Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- adjective Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.
- adjective Not gelded; -- said of a horse.
- adjective obsolete Internal; interior.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
whole ;complete - adjective botany Having a
smooth margin without anyindentation . - adjective complex analysis Complex-differentiable on all of
ℂ . - adjective of a male animal
Not gelded . - noun An uncastrated horse; a
stallion . - noun philately A complete
envelope with stamps and allofficial markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used of domestic animals) sexually competent
- noun uncastrated adult male horse
- adjective (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes
- adjective constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
- adjective constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word entire.
Examples
-
The masked Queen pictured in the first issue was Manfred Lee, and by Lee's account, in a 1969 letter to _The Armchair Detective, _ the two shared the workload: "[W] e were its entire staff -- you read me -- _entire; _ we did not even have a secretary.
-
The masked Queen pictured in the first issue was Manfred Lee, and by Lee's account, in a 1969 letter to _The Armchair Detective, _ the two shared the workload: "[W] e were its entire staff -- you read me -- _entire; _ we did not even have a secretary.
-
Now when he has won the title entire nation, tennis loves and his family feeling so proud of him.
-
Halsted had operated on enough women and extracted enough tumors to create what he called an entire “cancer storehouse” at Hopkins.
-
Halsted had operated on enough women and extracted enough tumors to create what he called an entire “cancer storehouse” at Hopkins.
-
Halsted had operated on enough women and extracted enough tumors to create what he called an entire “cancer storehouse” at Hopkins.
-
There are countless dramas within this leela, which I define as the entire theatre of life and all its forms.
-
I called the entire abortion problem a tragedy at the Princeton conference, and I stand by it.
Dr. David P. Gushee: Abortion, American Culture And The Limits Of Law
-
I called the entire abortion problem a tragedy at the Princeton conference, and I stand by it.
Dr. David P. Gushee: Abortion, American Culture And The Limits Of Law
-
You can see how that sentence and how what I've told you here are actually not in entire disagreement.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.