Definitions for utterly
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.3 / 3 votes

1. absolutely, perfectly, utterly, deadadverb

   completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

   "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. utterlyadverb

   completely, entirely, to the fullest extent

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Utterlyadverb

   Fully; completely; perfectly. For the most part, in an ill sense.

   Etymology: from utter.

   God, whose property is to shew his mercies then greatest, when they are nearest to be utterly despaired. Richard Hooker, b. iv.

   Arguments taken from the authority of men, may not only so far forth as hath been declared, but further also be of some force in human sciences; which force, be it never so small, doth shew that they are not utterly naught. Richard Hooker, b. ii.

   All your int’rest in those territories
   Is utterly bereft you; all is lost. William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.

   He was so utterly tired with an employment so contrary to his humour, that he did not consider the means that would lead him out of it. Edward Hyde, b. viii.

   While in the flesh we cannot be utterly insensible of the afflictions that befal us. Francis Atterbury.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. Utterlyadverb

   in an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain

British National Corpus

1. Adverbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'utterly' in Adverbs Frequency: #373

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   The numerical value of utterly in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of utterly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of utterly in a Sentence

1. Mitch Daniels:

   Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun embodied all we can hope for in our leaders : brilliance of mind, purity of motive, stainless in character, tireless in the pursuit of duty. Incomparably knowledgeable about the world, Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun was first and always a patriot, utterly dedicated to the security and wellbeing of Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun fellow Americans, indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun voice is now silent, but Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun is still with us. Indianapolis is a thriving and vibrant city because of Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun. The world is safer from nuclear danger because of Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun. And so many of us, while falling far short of the standards Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun set, are vastly better people because of Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun.

2. Margaret Oliphant Oliphant:

   Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

3. Chuck Schumer:

   Under this law, if Wyoming or Alabama said any person could carry a concealed gun, they could come to Times Square, Penn Station carrying that gun -- concealed, the chaos that would result would be utterly amazing.

4. James Nuber:

   This is utterly baffling.

5. Hilaire Belloc:

   When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

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