entire
Syllables: en·tireUK/ɪnˈtaɪə//ɪnˈtaɪɚ/
entire adjective: whole; complete.
Adjective
entire (not comparable)
- Whole; complete.
- We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
- No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416
- Antonyms:
- partial, incomplete
- Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
- Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.1899, Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, volumes 6-8, page 192
- Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
- Not gelded.
- On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.2018, Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay, page 423
- Morally whole; pure; sheer.
- See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
- No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed...
- Internal; interior.
- Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet VI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC
Noun
entire (countable and uncountable, plural entires)
- The whole of something; the entirety.
- In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism
- ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 19
- An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
- He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 124
- A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
- Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.
entire meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
entire in Hindi
- entire
- पूरा pūrā
entire in Tamil
- அனைத்து, முழு
entire in Marathi
- entire, whole
- सबंध sabandha, अखंड akhaṇḍa
entire in Urdu
- entire, whole
- دروبست dar-ō-bast
- entire
- کمال kamāl, وشوہ viśva
- entire, total
- مکمل mukammal
More languagesFewer languages
- entire in Bengali
- অখিল okhil, নিখিল nikhil
- entire in Telugu
- మొత్తము mottamu
- entire in Malayalam
- നിശ്ലേഷമായ, മുഴുവനായ
- entire in Kannada
- ಒಟ್ಟು oṭṭu
- entire in Sanskrit
- सर्व sárva, विश्व viśva
- entire in Vietnamese
- toàn bộ, toàn thể, hoàn toàn
Examples of entire in a sentence
- The minister said a prayer on behalf of the entire congregation.
- The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
- His extreme love of model trains showed in the rails that criscrossed his entire home.
Synonyms of entire
Antonyms
Forms of entire
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | intire |
| Noun | |
| plural | entires |
Origin of entire
From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”). Doublet of entier and integer.
Words formed from entire
Phrases with entire
Words that rhyme with entire
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- desire
- esquire
- inspire
- tire
- acquire
- admire
- dire
- empire
- respire
- sire
- transpire
- trier
- dryer
- friar
- fryer
- gyre
- lyre
- mire
- misfire
- require
- underfire
- aspire
- bemire
- buyer
- conspire
- inquire
- overfire
- perspire
- quire
- tyre
- attire
- briar
- crier
- higher
- lier
- overtire
- Pryor
- pyre
- re-retire
- retrochoir
- rewire
- supplier
- suspire
- underwire
- unretire
- afire
- byre
- drier
Questions about entire
- What does entire mean?
- Entire means whole; complete.
- What is entire in Hindi?
- Entire in Hindi is पूरा (pūrā). See Entire meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is entire?
- Entire can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce entire?
- Entire is pronounced /ɪnˈtaɪə/ (UK).
Words near entire in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: entire (page history and authors); पूरा (Hindi) (page history and authors); entire (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अखंड (Marathi) (page history and authors); دروبست (Urdu) (page history and authors); অখিল (Bengali) (page history and authors); entire (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಒಟ್ಟು (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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