entirely

adverb en·tire·ly \ in-ˈtī(-ə)r-lē , ˈen-ˌtī(-ə)r- \

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 in a Sentence

are you entirely aware of what you're doing with that thing?

Recent Examples of entirely from the Web

The city and the country The women's prison population increased by 66 percent between 2002 and 2013, driven almost entirely by a surge in the number of white women behind bars.

— amy yurkanin, AL.com, "Poor, rural and addicted: Drugs drive surge in white women in prison," 24 Aug. 2017
It's been an entirely different story since the All-Star break, however.

— jay jaffe, SI.com, "Aaron Judge is Mortal: Analyzing What is Causing His Second-Half Slump," 22 Aug. 2017
Such alteration represents an erasure of history, which is entirely inappropriate at a university.

— dave collins, courant.com, "Yale To Remove Carving With Gun Pointed At Native American," 22 Aug. 2017
But Baidu has stumbled as Chinese users skipped personal computers entirely and turned to smartphones, and has had trouble competing in a financial arms race between Tencent and Alibaba.

— paul mozur, The Seattle Times, "Move over America: China joins the ranks of the world’s biggest tech companies," 20 Aug. 2017
Philip Morris says 72 percent of users in Japan quit cigarettes entirely and converted to IQOS.

— author: william wan, Alaska Dispatch News, "Big tobacco’s new cigarette is sleek, smokeless – but is it actually healthier?," 12 Aug. 2017
Back in 2016, Al Schoffelman, a crane operator in South Dakota, custom-made a 1979 Ford truck entirely out of red oak, according to Truck Trend.

— katina beniaris, Country Living, "This Man Made a Life-Size Ford Truck Out of Wood, and It's a Sight to Behold," 11 Aug. 2017
During peak flows up to 50 percent higher than normal, a rapid may become even more pronounced—or disappear entirely.

— peter reese, Popular Mechanics, "Five Things to Know Before Running a Wild River," 11 Aug. 2017
His team’s analysis of the sediments around the fossil suggests that Borealopelta was entirely buried soon after the animal reached the seabed, preventing the skin on its belly from degrading.

— giorgia guglielmi, Science | AAAS, "Did this big dino use camouflage to hide from predators?," 3 Aug. 2017

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First Known Use of entirely

14th century

entirely Synonyms

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

Near Antonyms

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

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