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entirely

English

Alternative forms

  • entierly (chiefly archaic)
  • intirely (archaic or nonstandard)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?ta??li/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?n?ta??li/
  • Hyphenation: en?tire?ly

Adverb

entirely (not comparable)

  1. To the full or entire extent.
  2. To the exclusion of others.

Synonyms

  • (to the full extent): completely, wholly; see also Thesaurus:completely
  • (to the exclusion of others): solely, wholly; see also Thesaurus:solely

Related terms

  • entirety

Translations

Anagrams

  • entierly, lientery

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throughly

English

Alternative forms

  • thruly (nonstandard, U.S.A.)

Etymology

From through +? -ly.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /???u?li/

Adverb

throughly (comparative more throughly, superlative most throughly)

  1. (now rare, archaic) Thoroughly, completely.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.7:
      The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.
    • c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, III.2:
      The next advantage / Will we take throughly.
    • :
      Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.

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