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Utterly   /ˈətərli/   Listen
Utterly

adverb
1.
Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers.  Synonyms: absolutely, dead, perfectly.  "A perfectly idiotic idea" , "You're perfectly right" , "Utterly miserable" , "You can be dead sure of my innocence" , "Was dead tired" , "Dead right"






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"Utterly" Quotes from Famous Books



... John. He had heard something and was utterly overcome. Fortunately enough he could not ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard

... you know what you are facing, any of you, Eleanor. I'll tell you what I told your mother: there will be battle, murder, and sudden death let loose here in Angels before to-morrow morning. And it is so utterly unnecessary for any ...
— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde

... faintly to put me away. She withheld her lips by averting her head; but I caught at her wrists and held her arms to her sides. By- and-by she let me have my will, and gave me kiss for kiss. I had won her; she was mine utterly from that hour. ...
— The Fool Errant • Maurice Hewlett

... change, perhaps of radical change, might be discovered there by a competent critic. I base my expectation on two circumstances somewhat more external and visible to the lay mind. One circumstance is that the new theories seem to be affected, and partly inspired, by a particular philosophy, itself utterly insecure. This philosophy regards the point of view as controlling or even creating the object seen; in other words, it identifies the object with the experience or the knowledge of it: it is essentially a subjective, psychological, Protestant philosophy. The study of perspectives, ...
— Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - Five Essays • George Santayana

... Mercadet! I, who have been in his house for the last six years, and have seen him since his troubles fighting with his creditors, can believe him capable of anything, even of growing rich; sometimes I say to myself he is utterly ruined! Yellow auction placards flame at his door. He receives reams of stamped creditor's notices, which I sell by the pound for waste paper without being noticed. But presto! Up he bobs again. He is triumphant. ...
— Mercadet - A Comedy In Three Acts • Honore De Balzac


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