entirely

en·tire·ly

adv

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

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