entitled

[ en-tahyt-ld ]

adjective

1. called by the title indicated:

   In my paper so entitled, I explore the idea that "Robust Democracy Is National Security."

2. having a right or legitimate claim to something:

   The inheritance passes to the legally entitled heir.

3. assuming or acting as though one has an innate right or claim to wealth, success, recognition, etc.:

   I was so entitled and self-centered that I never noticed the injustices around me.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of entitle ( def ).

Other Words From

• un·en·ti·tled adjective
• well-en·ti·tled adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of entitled¹

entitle ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

While Blair’s attorneys denied these allegations, a judge ruled Snyder was entitled to the records he sought.

From Washington Post

Your decisions can be good or bad, but you are entitled as an adult to make decisions about your finances and your property and your medical care.

From Vox

Still, his parents kept a Government Printing Office pamphlet from 1950 entitled “Survival Under Atomic Attack.”

From Washington Post

Uber fought to treat its app workers as contractors, not full-time employees entitled to benefits—a battle it just won after the election day approval of ballot measure Proposition 22 in California.

From Fortune

The agency thinks that millions more aren’t entitled to its help.

From ProPublica

Everyone is entitled to be treated with basic decency and respect.

From The Daily Beast

Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge have always been entitled brats.

From The Daily Beast

To celebrate a retrospective box set, entitled Nothing Has Changed, Bowie has released a video for one of two new songs included.

From The Daily Beast

Park gave the First Lady a book entitled “The Very Best of Korean Cooking.”

From The Daily Beast

And if anyone's entitled to such sweet dreams, it's Annie Lennox.

From The Daily Beast

Neither privately owned nor government stock is entitled to voting power.

From Project Gutenberg

A full General landing to inspect overseas is entitled to a salute of 17 guns—well, I got my dues.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1639 Venner published a volume entitled "A Treatise" concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco.

From Project Gutenberg

One of the first tracts wholly devoted to tobacco is entitled Nash's "Lenten Stuffe."

From Project Gutenberg

Doing so, I received a different sort of salute from that to which a Commander-in-Chief landing on duty is entitled by regulation.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• honored
• powerful