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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
entirely
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
absolutely/perfectly/entirely correct (=completely correct)
▪ What he said was perfectly correct.
completely/entirely random
▪ The atomic particles seem to move in a completely random direction.
completely/fully/totally/entirely satisfied
▪ If you’re not completely satisfied, you can get your money back.
consist entirely/solely of sb/sth
▪ The area does not consist entirely of rich people, despite popular belief.
entirely distinct
▪ two entirely distinct languages
highly/entirely/wholly appropriate
▪ I thought his remark was highly appropriate, given the circumstances.
not entirely clear
▪ Sam’s reasons for leaving were not entirely clear.
not entirely unexpected
▪ Hague’s announcement was not entirely unexpected.
not entirely/wholly/completely
▪ Frege’s theory is not entirely satisfactory.
not quite/entirely sure
▪ ‘What are they?’ ‘I’m not entirely sure.’
not strictly/entirely/completely accurate
▪ The evidence she gave to the court was not strictly accurate not exactly accurate.
not...entirely blameless (=are guilty of doing something bad)
▪ The police are not always entirely blameless in these matters.
partly/largely/entirely etc to blame
▪ Television is partly to blame.
perfectly/entirely reasonable (also eminently reasonableformal) (= completely reasonable)
▪ The proposal sounds perfectly reasonable.
purely/completely/entirely coincidental
▪ Any similarity between this film and real events is purely coincidental.
totally/completely/entirely unnecessary
▪ The suffering of these animals is totally unnecessary.
wholly/entirely useless
▪ From his point of view qualifications are wholly useless.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accurate
▪ The picture of a dovish president pulled in opposite directions by thugs on both right and left is not entirely accurate.
▪ But it is not entirely accurate.
▪ This has a certain ring to it, but apparently it is not entirely accurate.
▪ She found that the membership list with which Hilary Roberts had supplied her was a not entirely accurate document.
▪ The popular image of him as a laconic, amiable figure is not entirely accurate.
appropriate
▪ Administration officials said it was entirely appropriate for the Clintons to host overnight guests.
▪ The freakishness of their own appearance seemed entirely appropriate.
▪ That the world should be so enchanting after the enchantment of Vitor's lovemaking was entirely appropriate.
▪ Young Fowler thinks it entirely appropriate.
▪ Her reaction, he wrote, was entirely appropriate.
▪ It is therefore entirely appropriate that today Pompeii still represents the cutting edge of archaeological research and development.
▪ Theological answers are necessary and entirely appropriate to this doubt.
clear
▪ It is not entirely clear what factors the court must take into account when creating the hypothetical similar child.
▪ The exact relation between net water uptake and osmolality is not entirely clear from our findings.
▪ These rules are longstanding and entirely clear.
▪ The relevance of SSAPs to the public sector has never been entirely clear.
▪ Typically, public agencies are not entirely clear about their goals, or are in fact aiming at the wrong goals.
▪ This gives the buyer the opportunity to query anything that is not entirely clear.
▪ Reasons for this increase are not entirely clear.
dependent
▪ You're not entirely dependent on your husband.
▪ Although they worked through institutions, they had no regular sources of income and were entirely dependent on providence.
▪ The National Blood Transfusion Service is entirely dependent on voluntary blood donors.
▪ She could move little more than her eyes, and she remained entirely dependent on her iron tomb for breath.
▪ Beyond that, the matter is entirely dependent upon agreement.
▪ Travel and tourism is now the world's biggest industry, and many countries are almost entirely dependent on tourism.
▪ Through incubation and fledging, it is entirely dependent on the care of its adopted parents.
different
▪ It was soon clear that this was an entirely different kettle of fish.
▪ How the exterior would function was an entirely different concern.
▪ Before his fight with Fitzmaurice took place, Burke achieved fame in entirely different circumstances.
▪ What finally evolves as standard jargon may be entirely different than anything suggested so far.
▪ Human beings are entirely different from swallows.
▪ This shows how a name can be derived from one entirely different from its original.
▪ They came to Stanford at the same time, but from entirely different directions.
free
▪ Family meals, a compulsory ritual, were not entirely free of hazard.
▪ Treatment, inclusive of medicines, surgery, hospitalisation and even food, was entirely free.
▪ Soloist Annette Servadei played beautifully with an involvement entirely free from any kind of ostentation.
▪ From the time she had bought the tickets out of her savings she had not been entirely free of fear.
▪ Where there is no joint action, each member state is entirely free to act on its own.
▪ In this connection we must consider the animal phobias of which no child is entirely free.
▪ Nevertheless, the wording is not entirely free from ambiguity, and no doubt some officials decided to play it safe.
▪ It split up the back, and, at the shoulders, the sleeves came entirely free.
happy
▪ But he is not entirely happy with the service.
▪ Although I was not entirely happy with the quality of our game, I was pleased with the outcome.
▪ However, I was not entirely happy with the situation because aromatherapy was being used mainly as a palliative.
▪ He wasn't entirely happy about that.
▪ They did not seem entirely happy, to Esther, but Esther put her suspicions down to jealousy.
▪ The Filbert Street fans are not entirely happy despite Leicester's healthy position in the table.
▪ Alchemy, it seemed, was not an entirely happy affair.
▪ This satisfaction is relative, one or either may emerge less than entirely happy with the result.
new
▪ Like Venice, it is impossible to say anything entirely new about them.
▪ Through this process Walden itself becomes an entirely new world.
▪ She then had a delectable mushroom soup - and for the main course she chose something that was entirely new to her.
▪ Web browsers, once limited to displaying text and graphics and downloading files, have created an entirely new element of risk.
▪ For the Colonial Service, this was something entirely new.
▪ All this is not entirely new.
▪ Although it shares many features and concepts with the R22, the R44 is an entirely new design.
▪ And in the process we stumbled across a great idea, an entirely new security.
possible
▪ It is entirely possible that our backwater of a planet is literally the only one that has ever borne life.
▪ It is entirely possible that the trustees will be wrong.
▪ And it would have been entirely possible with the right companion.
▪ It is entirely possible that there isn't.
▪ It was entirely possible that Jos was still trying to warn him off, for his own good.
satisfactory
▪ This, though a more realistic standard of judgement, was also not entirely satisfactory.
▪ The penalty under Section 242, when only one individual acted, was still not entirely satisfactory.
▪ For most novels of literary merit, neither the dualist nor the monist doctrine will be entirely satisfactory.
▪ Neither method is entirely satisfactory since apparently homologous muscles may change their sites of attachment during evolution and alter their functions.
▪ For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter, they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923.
▪ Yet neither of these explanations on their own seems to me to be entirely satisfactory.
▪ They were not entirely satisfactory and had a tendency to derail on the very sharp corner at Pitlake.
▪ But these provisions are not entirely satisfactory.
sure
▪ I wasn't entirely sure whether he was joking or not.
▪ He was in fact confused himself, not entirely sure how his career had carried him here.
▪ Brian and I weren't entirely sure how to deal with the Yanks' antagonisms.
▪ The policy-makers are still not entirely sure why inflation has remained so low despite a 5. 3 percent unemployment rate.
▪ Alice was not entirely sure how.
▪ It is too early to be entirely sure, but it looks as though the tide may well have turned.
▪ Mrs Webster, though not entirely sure that they were unnecessarily worried, pitied their anxiety none the less.
unexpected
▪ The news was not entirely unexpected.
▪ It was entirely unexpected, and its cause a mystery, so much so that poison was inevitably suspected.
▪ This omission was not entirely unexpected.
▪ The amount and quality ofthe sculpture unearthed was not entirely unexpected.
▪ But this was not entirely unexpected.
▪ Since that showed a degree of consistency in attitudes, it was not entirely unexpected.
▪ Not entirely unexpected, but still remarkable.
■ VERB
agree
▪ I agree entirely with my hon. Friend on that matter.
▪ That district authority and I agree entirely on the future of local government.
▪ Before anybody complains that all this is very sexist and demeaning - I entirely agree.
▪ Mr. King I entirely agree with my hon. Friend.
▪ I entirely agree that salaries should be performance-related and subject to shareholder control.
▪ I entirely agree and would be content to adopt the judgment of Taylor L.J. as my own.
▪ The Prime Minister I agree entirely with my hon. Friend's analysis on that point.
based
▪ The claim to legitimacy of particular possession is based entirely upon the institutionalization of rights.
▪ Maybe you prefer not to think of yourself as some one whose value to baseball is entirely based on the revenue you provide.
▪ Finally, if cut-price really does equal cut-corners, why are contributions based entirely on gross fees?
▪ There was a time when law was entirely based on the oral tradition.
▪ But the Fed's timing may not have been based entirely on domestic considerations.
▪ Their plans are made far in advance, based entirely on their own thinking.
▪ Contamination of water supplies by oily mists threatens agriculture in the region since it is almost entirely based on irrigation.
▪ His idea of success is based entirely on the growth of his budget, staff and political profile.
consist
▪ Certainly, it is no justification in itself for ruling out ads consisting entirely of words.
▪ He proposed designing a plane consisting entirely of flat triangles.
▪ In these terms, the original puzzle becomes that of why natural selection does not produce a population consisting entirely of hawks.
▪ These organizations usually consist entirely of older people committed to fighting elderly issues directly.
▪ The Giral government, consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans, was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation.
▪ These should consist entirely of high upland in which no agricultural or forestry activities would take place.
▪ He describes Lebna Dengel's capital as being the size of a town but consisting entirely of tents.
convince
▪ I am entirely convinced that Joseph Kosuth has never seen work by Claudio Parmiggiani either actually or in reproduction.
▪ Other critics were positive but not entirely convinced.
▪ Perhaps she still isn't entirely convinced.
▪ Although I am not entirely convinced by the contents of the motion, I agree with parts of it.
▪ Even the fashion world is not entirely convinced by the rehabilitation of fur-wearing.
▪ This is not an entirely convincing explanation either, but there is little else that can be suggested.
▪ They've got the one in hospital down as Hans-Heinz Lemke, but they aren't entirely convinced.
▪ This explanation is not entirely convincing.
depend
▪ How good the meal was depended entirely on what the cook was like, you couldn't believe the difference.
▪ Their numbers and size depend entirely on climate, and that climate must be perfect.
▪ In the second class, the jurisdiction depends entirely on the character of the parties.
▪ Manycommunities depend entirely on glacial meltwater.
▪ But the symbolic gesture is likely to be of dubious long-term value and will depend entirely on the personalities and circumstances involved.
▪ It will depend entirely on the subject, so be prepared to think laterally!
▪ The oasis is man-made and depends entirely on the river.
disappear
▪ But if we can achieve that, then their argument on the urgency for entry entirely disappears.
▪ About 1629, scarcely a quarter-century after the first accounts of it, the cahow disappeared entirely.
▪ Such taboos have not entirely disappeared today.
▪ The small lead to which Samuel had previously clung had entirely disappeared.
▪ Robertsbridge, the great Cistercian house, disappeared entirely, torn down by the local people.
▪ They lose much of their natural paranoia about predators, but is never disappears entirely.
▪ This is not to say that the age of the Great Leader has entirely disappeared.
▪ Embalming was rarely practised during the eighteenth century and it had almost entirely disappeared during the nineteenth century.
satisfy
▪ And as with all our offers we guarantee to refund your money if you're not entirely satisfied with your order.
▪ Clinton has been too protean to entirely satisfy either.
▪ But she wasn't entirely satisfied.
▪ The children themselves, 75 she continues, can be entirely satisfied.
▪ A similar structure would not entirely satisfy the Panel.
▪ And yet, am I entirely satisfied with my lot?
▪ She has said she will not give a penny until she is entirely satisfied the unit will go ahead as planned.
seem
▪ The freakishness of their own appearance seemed entirely appropriate.
▪ This seemed entirely logical and fair, but when state analysts finally looked at the results, they were horrified.
▪ Two years on, and Roughley's class seem entirely unfazed by the technology and being asked to present some research findings.
▪ Eleanor, on the other hand, seems entirely real.
▪ They did not seem entirely happy, to Esther, but Esther put her suspicions down to jealousy.
▪ No one - not even Buckingham Palace - seemed entirely sure.
▪ It seems entirely natural simply because most of us have been using it since we were teenagers.
▪ He sat down beside her and it seemed entirely natural that he should take one of her hands.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a (very/completely/entirely) different animal
▪ But as I take my very first step on to the ground she becomes a very different animal.
▪ Each dancer had to assume the actions of a different animal.
▪ I was a Territorial, a very different animal.
▪ My second example, although involving a very different animal, raises the same kind of questions.
▪ So in Utah now, Rivendell is really a different animal.
▪ You should repeat each test at least ten times using a different animal of the same kind for each test.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At the very beginning of the project, Paul made it clear that he would be entirely in control.
▪ I'm not entirely sure what she meant.
▪ Jeff and Mike come from entirely different backgrounds.
▪ The audience consisted almost entirely of journalists.
▪ The foundation depends entirely on voluntary contributions.
▪ The reasons for his departure weren't entirely clear.
▪ The sculpture is made entirely of old car tires.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Abortion can be surgical, part-surgical or entirely non-surgical.
▪ For the first time in their careers, they are featured entirely naked in ecclesiastical, urban and pastoral contexts.
▪ Hong Kong swirled with news of his whereabouts, all of it entirely speculative.
▪ Of course it is a commonplace that a memory of a later time may color if not change entirely a former.
▪ Our physical world consists, is entirely made up, of these perceptions.
▪ Then I saw that the senders wanted something else entirely.
▪ These may be entirely contained within the borders of a single country even though their effects are transnational.
▪ When they come to depend almost entirely on staff members for every duty except voting?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entirely

Entirely \En*tire"ly\, adv.

  1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost.

    Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea.
    --Raleigh.

  2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely.

    To highest God entirely pray.
    --Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
entirely

mid-14c., from entire + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
entirely

adv. To the full or entire extent.

WordNet
entirely
  1. adv. to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea" [syn: wholly, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole] [ant: partially]

  2. without any others being included or involved; "was entirely to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"; "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him" [syn: exclusively, solely, alone, only]

Usage examples of "entirely".

The cloak had not put out the fire entirely, though, and quenching the flames that sprang up here and there had entailed a great deal of excitement and rushing about, in the course of which Orrie McCallum was misplaced, toddled off, and fell into the groundhog kiln, where he was foundmany frantic minutes laterby Rollo.

One regiment was almost entirely destroyed, the other pressed forward as far as the abattis, fighting so desperately that Daun was obliged to bring up large reinforcements before he could drive the survivors back.

For Adams so much had changed about the atmosphere in which he lived and worked that it was as if Paris had become an entirely different place, and he, a different man.

Almost from the moment the election was decided--and the Republican campaign to unseat Adams had failed--the Republican press shifted its attacks almost entirely to the President, striking the sharpest blows Washington had yet known.

The last of the dispatches was not entirely decoded until March 12, and for several days Adams struggled over what to do, listening to advice and scribbling his thoughts on paper as his mood swung one way then another.

Washington had accepted his commission in an entirely cordial letter to Adams, but with the understanding that as head of the new army he could choose his own principal officers.

But the man in the courtyard had been middle-aged, while this fellow was barely more than an boy, slender and graceful, though not --it was obvious to Ahl -- entirely sober at the moment.

The tongue was low and liquid and entirely beautiful and enchanting, and she spoke, too, much with her eyes and with her graceful hands, as did her companions, for the tribe of Nu was not far removed from those earlier peoples, descended from the alalus who were speechless, and who preceded those who spoke by signs.

Lagos, was devoted entirely to the report of Meyer Horowitz on the iceberg Alamo operation.

The special units were under his personal control and all the officers were Alawites, former peasants like him and the dictator, men who owed their good fortune in life entirely to him.

The order had come from Admiral Leahy, but it had originated with Albright, who thought it entirely likely the Germans had come up with improvements to their devices that he wanted to know about.

Miyuki screamed, her CPR forgotten as the corpse knocked over the tall stool with a crash that was all but entirely muffled by the thrashing of the creature in the next room.

With few exceptions, it lays no restrictions on the type or length of keys, as does the Kasiski method, nor on the alphabets, which may be interrelated or entirely independent.

As Jessamy removed the dried floral wreaths from both bowed heads, the girls with the veils performed their offices, bidding Alyce and Marie to hold the front edges of the veils in place while rainbow-plaited fillets were bound across their foreheads, entirely suitable for the lives they were to lead for the next few years.

It entirely overwhelmed me, and all ethical scruples ceased to have meaning.