completely
In a complete manner; thoroughly.
Adverb
- In a complete manner; thoroughly.
- Please completely fill in the box for your answer, using a number “2” pencil.
- I will have completely finished my degree by next July, when my thesis has been properly edited.
- It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded. - 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 70, in Moby-Dick:
- To the fullest extent or degree; totally.
- He is completely mad.
- I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me...
- Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. - 1968 June 8, Edward M. Kennedy, Tribute to Senator Robert F. Kennedy:
Origin
Etymology tree English complete Middle English -ly English -ly English completely From complete + -ly.
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Synonyms
fully totally utterly absolutely all-out tout à fait all the way blind altogether at large at length cap-a-pie categorically completely detailly downright entirely exhaustively finally first and last flat-out flat out from aardvark to zymurgy from A to Z
Antonyms
after a fashion barely half-assedly hardly in a sense in a way incompletely inconsistently moderately partially partly poorly somewhat spottily to an extent
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alpha and omega degree extent abundantly but good comprehensively consistently extensively extremely in spades thoroughly entire entirety everything total the dickens