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   entire

   /ɪnˈtʌɪə/

   adjective

   • 1. with no part left out; whole: "my plans are to travel the entire world" Similar wholecompletetotalfullcontinuousunbrokenuninterruptedundividedOpposite partial
   • ▪ without qualification or reservations; absolute: "an ideological system with which he is in entire agreement" Similar absolutetotalutterout-and-outthoroughthoroughgoingwholeheartedunqualifiedunreservedunmitigatedunmodifiedunmixedunalloyedunrestrictedperfectoutrightpuresheerOpposite partialqualified
   • 2. not broken, damaged, or decayed. Similar intactunbrokenundamagedunharmedunimpairedunflawedunscathedunspoiledunmutilatedunblemishedunmarkedperfectinviolatein one piecesoundsolidOpposite brokenpartial
   • 3. (of a male horse) not castrated.
   • 4. (of a leaf) without indentations or division into leaflets.

   noun

   • 1. an uncastrated male horse.

   Word Origin late Middle English (formerly also as intire): from Old French entier, based on Latin integer ‘untouched, whole’, from in- ‘not’ + tangere ‘to touch’.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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