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Entirely   /ɪntˈaɪərli/   Listen
Entirely

adverb
1.
To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly').  Synonyms: all, altogether, completely, totally, whole, wholly.  "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"
2.
Without any others being included or involved.  Synonyms: alone, exclusively, only, solely.  "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"






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"Entirely" Quotes from Famous Books



... of which Bonaparte was thinking, when Bourrienne saw by the expression of his face that he must be left entirely to the reflections ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere

... come to his headquarters without ceremony, and after the battle of Antietam I had several opportunities of unrestrained discussion of affairs in which he seemed entirely frank in giving me his opinions. It was plainly evident that he was subjected to a good deal of pressure by opponents of the administration to make him commit himself to them. On the other hand, Governor Dennison of Ohio, who was his sincere friend, took every opportunity to counteract such influences ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox

... Langensalza even: this chain has above 150 miles of weak length; and various other grave faults to the eye of Ferdinand,—especially this, that it is in the form, not of an elbow only, or joiner's-square, which is entirely to be disapproved, but even of two elbows; in fact, of the PROFILE OF A CHAIR [if readers had a Map at hand]. FOOT of the chair is Frankfurt; SEAT part is from Marburg to Ziegenhayn; BACK part, near where Ferdinand lies in chief force, is the Cassel region, on to Munden, which is TOP of ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... of which we have heard so much of late, is something more than brutish, and can hardly be mentioned without offending chaste Ears, and yet cannot be passed over entirely in Silence, because of the particular Mark of Divine Vengeance set upon it in the Destruction of Sodom by ...
— A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster; On Occasion of the Late Earthquakes • Thomas Sherlock

... birds, and ever on the alert for some new acquaintance, my attention was arrested, on first entering the swamp, by a bright, lively song, or warble, that issued from the branches overhead, and that was entirely new to me, though there was something in the tone that told me the bird was related to the wood-wagtail and to the water-wagtail or thrush. The strain was emphatic and quite loud, like the canary's, but very brief. The bird kept ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs


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