K5Print Free printable worksheets for K–5

entitled

  • adjective
  • tit·led
  • /ɪnˈtaɪtl̩d/

Having a title.

Example

“Her book is entitled 'My Autobiography'.”

Other meanings

  1. Having a legal or moral right or claim to something.

    “As a natural-born citizen I am entitled to run for president.”

  2. Convinced of one's own righteousness (self-righteousness) or the justifiability of one's actions or status, especially wrongly so; demanding and pretentious.

Synonyms

  • authorized

Related words

  • entitledness
  • overentitled
  • underentitled
  • unentitled
  • self-entitled

Example sentences

  • “You may be entitled to compensation.”

    Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0
  • “You are entitled to an opinion, not to an audience.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “entitled” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.