Entirely

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Entirely \En*tire"ly\, adv.
     1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the
        trace is entirely lost.
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              Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea.


                                                    --Raleigh.
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     2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely.
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              To highest God entirely pray.         --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  entirely
       adv 1: to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent
              (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he
              was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the
              meal"; "it was completely different from what we
              expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new
              situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was
              not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new
              approach"; "a whole new idea" [syn: {wholly}, {completely},
               {totally}, {all}, {altogether}, {whole}] [ant: {partially}]
       2: without any others being included or involved; "was entirely
          to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of
          problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively";
          "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on
          the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him"
          [syn: {exclusively}, {solely}, {alone}, {only}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "entirely":
     absolutely, across the board, all, all out, all put together,
     alone, altogether, as a body, as a whole, at large, bodily, but,
     clearly, collectively, completely, comprehensively, corporately,
     definitely, en bloc, en masse, exclusively, exhaustively,
     faultlessly, flawlessly, fully, globally, hundred per cent,
     ideally, immaculately, impeccably, in a body, in all,
     in all respects, in bulk, in every respect, in full,
     in full measure, in its entirety, in the aggregate, in the gross,
     in the lump, in the mass, in toto, inclusively, infallibly,
     inside out, integrally, irreducibly, just right, largely, lock,
     merely, on all counts, one and all, only, outright, perfectly,
     plumb, positively, purely, quite, root and branch, roundly, simply,
     solely, spotlessly, thoroughly, to a T, to the hilt, totally,
     tout a fait, tout ensemble, unambiguously, unanalyzably,
     unconditionally, undividedly, unequivocally, unreservedly, utterly,
     wholly, without exception