entirely

en·tire·ly

adverb

Definition of ENTIRELY

1

: to the full or entire extent : completely <I agree entirely> <you are entirely welcome>

2

: to the exclusion of others : solely <entirely by my own efforts>

Examples of ENTIRELY

1. <are you entirely aware of what you're doing with that thing?>

First Known Use of ENTIRELY

14th century

Related to ENTIRELY

Synonyms

all, all of, all over, altogether, clean, completely, dead, enough, entire, fully, even, exactly, fast, flat, full, heartily, out, perfectly, plumb [chiefly dialect], quite, soundly, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, well, wholly, wide

Antonyms

half, halfway, incompletely, part, partially, partly

Related Words

absolutely, categorically, cold, downright, hands down, plain, stone, stone-cold, unqualifiedly; basically, by and large, chiefly, generally, largely, mainly, more or less, mostly, overall, predominantly, predominately, primarily, principally, substantially; abundantly, copiously, generously, greatly

Near Antonyms

barely, hardly, just, kind of, marginally, minimally, scarcely, slightly, superficially; approximately, roughly, somewhat