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OneKitly

utterly

adverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈʌtəli//
  • United States//ˈʌtɚli//
  • United States/[ˈʌɾɚli]/
  • Scotland//ˈʌtəɾle//
  • //ˈʊtəli//

Completely; entirely; to the fullest extent.

adverb

  1. 1

    Completely; entirely; to the fullest extent.

    Well, now we are utterly lost.

    I have failed you utterly.

    An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.

Etymology

Etymology tree English utter Middle English -ly English -ly English utterly From utter + -ly.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).