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UTTERLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
Example:
dead right
Synonyms:
absolutely; dead; perfectly; utterly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
utter (without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers)
Context examples:
Without this mask, the faint light from the planet would be utterly overwhelmed by the intense brightness of PDS 70.
(First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet, ESO)
They walked off, utterly heedless of Mr. Rushworth's repeated question of, Shall I go too?
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Then he stood staring as if forgetting us, so utterly entranced was he by what he saw.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All was changing utterly with a sudden sweep.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They were new dogs, utterly transformed by the harness.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
She felt utterly unworthy of such respect, and knew not how to reply to it.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
They are utterly dissimilar in all respects.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Though utterly unlike in character, the twins got on remarkably well together, and seldom quarreled more than thrice a day.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I was put to bed: however, I received no other damage than the loss of a suit of clothes, which was utterly spoiled.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
His voice was utterly and drearily expressionless.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
