entire
pronunciation
How to pronounce entire in British English:
UK [ɪnˈtaɪə(r)]
How to pronounce entire in American English:
US [ɪnˈtaɪər]
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- Noun:
- uncastrated adult male horse
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- Adjective:
- constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
- constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged
- (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes
- (used of domestic animals) sexually competent
Word Origin
- entire
- entire: [14] Entire and integrity [15] have the same source – Latin integer. This meant ‘whole, complete’, and was formed from the prefix in- ‘in’ and *tag-, the base which produced Latin tangere ‘touch’, source of English tactile and tangible (and indeed of intact [15], a parallel formation to entire and integrity).English borrowed integer [16] itself as a mathematical term denoting a ‘whole’ number, and several of its Latin derivatives – not just integrity but also integral [16], from late Latin integrālis, and integrate [17], from Latin integrāre ‘make whole’. As its difference in form suggests, however, entire came via a different route.The Latin accusative form integrum produced Vulgar Latin *integro, which passed into Old French as entier – hence English entire.=> intact, integrity, tactile, tangible
- entire (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French entier "whole, unbroken, intact, complete," from Latin integrum "completeness" (nominative integer; see integer). Related: Entireness.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Our laboratory is the entire universe .
- 2. You can add these entire preselected circles or individual people .
- 3. Visitors may well have entire sections to themselves .
- 4. Air travel has given entire populations unprecedented mobility .
- 5. A poison that has made our entire economic system gravely ill .