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entirely

adv
/ɪnˈtaɪəli/UK/ɪnˈtaɪɹli/US

Etymology

From Middle English entyerly, entierly, enterely, entyreliche, equivalent to entire + -ly.

  1. inherited from entyerly

Definitions

  1. To the full or entire extent.

    • It is entirely up to you where we go, as I’ll be happy with anywhere.
    • The cake hadn’t entirely been eaten, so some was saved for later.
    • manuscript pages entirely without ornament.

  2. To the exclusion of others

    To the exclusion of others; solely.

    • I'm entirely to blame.
    • This part of the park is used entirely by the workers; everyone else will have to go to the other side.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at entirely. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at entirely. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at entirely

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA