entire
/ɪnˈtʌɪə
/ /ɛnˈtʌɪə/adjective
1 [attributive] With no part left out; whole: my plans are to travel the entire world...
- For one eerily glorious moment in time, the whole entire world seemed to be completely silent.
- Now, they are marketed as essential and whole supermarket aisles and entire shops are devoted to selling them.
- I am afraid that a whole country, an entire people, will be destroyed for nothing.
Synonyms
whole, complete, total, full;
continuous, unbroken, uninterrupted, undivided
1.1Without qualification or reservations; absolute: an ideological system with which he is in entire agreement...
- This Agreement embodies the entire understanding of the Parties as it relates to the subject matter hereof.
- This sounds like entire supposition, and I would like to know what reasoning is behind it.
Synonyms
absolute, total, utter, out-and-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, wholehearted;
unqualified, unreserved, unmitigated, unmodified, unmixed, unalloyed, unrestricted, perfect, outright, pure, sheer
2Not broken, damaged, or decayed.Because a crystalline solid is regular, we can see the inner form of the entire solid by looking at a fragment.
Synonyms
intact, unbroken, undamaged, unharmed, unimpaired, unflawed, unscathed, unspoilt, unmutilated, unblemished, unmarked, perfect, inviolate, in one piece;
sound, solid
3(Of a male horse) not castrated.
4 Botany (Of a leaf) without indentations or division into leaflets.
noun
An uncastrated male horse.
Origin
Late Middle English (formerly also as intire): from Old French entier, based on Latin integer 'untouched, whole', from in- 'not' + tangere 'to touch'.
Rhymes
- labour class
- labour coach
- labour colony
- labour content
- labour cost
- Labour Day
- Labour Day Weekend
- laboured
- labourer
- labourer in trust
- labouress
- labour exchange
- labour force
- Labour government
- labour hero
- labour heroine
- labour house
- labouring class
- labouringly
- labouring oar
- labouring time
- labour-intensive
- labourism
- labourist
- labouristic