Entire

//ɪnˈtaɪə// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The whole of something; the entirety. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks."

  2. 2
    uncastrated adult male horse wordnet
  3. 3
    An uncastrated horse; a stallion. countable, uncountable

    "He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated."

  4. 4
    A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery. countable, uncountable
Adjective
  1. 1
    Whole; complete. not-comparable, postpositional, sometimes

    "We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening."

  2. 2
    Having a smooth margin without any indentation. not-comparable

    "Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire."

  3. 3
    Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla. not-comparable
  4. 4
    Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ. not-comparable
  5. 5
    Not gelded. not-comparable

    "On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on."

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  1. 6
    Morally whole; pure; sheer. not-comparable

    "See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us."

  2. 7
    Internal; interior. not-comparable

    "Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire"

Adjective
  1. 1
    constituting the full quantity or extent; complete wordnet
  2. 2
    constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged wordnet
  3. 3
    (used of domestic animals) sexually competent wordnet
  4. 4
    (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes wordnet

Synonyms

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intactwholecompletetotalabsoluteadmitting no exception

Example

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"Regardless of the amount, Brian wants the correct, entire amount by next week."

Etymology

From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.

Related phrases

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