[
UK
/ɛntˈaɪəli/
]
[ US /ɪnˈtaɪɝɫi/ ]
[ US /ɪnˈtaɪɝɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
he was wholly convinced
the directions were all wrong
she felt right at home
it was not altogether her fault
an altogether new approach
he fell right into the trap
entirely satisfied with the meal
a whole new idea
it was completely different from what we expected
a totally new situation
was completely at fault -
without any others being included or involved
the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone
he works for Mr. Smith exclusively
a privilege granted only to him
a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children
was entirely to blame
did it solely for money
How To Use entirely In A Sentence
- She captures my attention without entirely absorbing it. Times, Sunday Times
- It's not entirely accurate - the book is a bit darker than that, but there is a fair bit of lovable eccentricity to the characters.
- However, we still rely entirely on the generosity of the public for funding.
- If you think spaceflight is a bad thing, shouldn't we eliminate it entirely? Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch
- The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical. Translated Texts
- A senior paediatrician who works with such families compared it to the intense love a besotted parent feels for an entirely helpless newborn. Times, Sunday Times
- Much African art still seems religiously alive and therefore not entirely at home in a secular environment.
- It seems that I turn into a bolshy, opinionated and entirely spoilt six-year-old kid at moments like this.
- 'St. Peter and St. Paul,' Guercino's 'Hagar and Abraham;' a row of old columns which were broken and lying about till the French set them upon their legs; Leonardo da Vinci's fresco, which is entirely spoilt. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3)
- Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.
