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intire

intire is the obsolete spelling of entire.

Meaning of entire

Adjective

entire (not comparable)

  1. (postpositional, sometimes) Whole; complete.
    • We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
    Synonyms:
    complete, total, utter
    Antonyms:
    partial, incomplete
  2. 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
  3. Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
  4. Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
  5. Not gelded.
    • On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.2018, Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay, page 423
  6. 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: […]...

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What is intire the obsolete spelling of?
Intire is the obsolete spelling of entire.

Words near intire in the dictionary

  1. intinctions
  2. intine
  3. intines
  4. inting
  5. Intipucá
  6. intire
  7. intirely
  8. intireties
  9. intirety
  10. intis
  11. intitle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intire (page history and authors); entire (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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