utterly — English Dictionary

Adverb

1. Completely; entirely; to the fullest extent.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   Well, now we are utterly lost.

   I have failed you utterly.

   More examples (2)

   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.

   Scott, somewhat stunned and now worried that everybody might have opened fire at the U.S. destroyers (he presumably missed Laffey and Farenholt merrily blazing away with their own guns into the darkness), ordered all firing to cease after a couple of minutes. Helena, along with Boise, was already several hundred shells lighter, and both Boise and San Francisco herself actually kept firing, as their captains were utterly sure about their targets; San Francisco's captain was very apologetic as he overruled Admiral Scott.

Adverb

1. completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

   Synonyms

   absolutelyperfectlydead

   Examples

   an absolutely magnificent painting

   a perfectly idiotic idea

   More examples (5)

   you're perfectly right

   utterly miserable

   you can be dead sure of my innocence

   was dead tired

   dead right