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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
utterly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
absolutely/utterly etc disgraceful
▪ Their behaviour was absolutely disgraceful.
absolutely/utterly ridiculous
▪ You look absolutely ridiculous in that short skirt.
absolutely/utterly/completely meaningless
▪ a statistic that is absolutely meaningless
deeply/utterly/wholly etc repugnant
totally/completely/utterly exhausted
▪ Looking after a baby on my own left me feeling totally exhausted.
utterly/unequivocally condemn sth/sb (=very definitely and with no doubts)
▪ We utterly condemn any acts of violence.
wholly/utterly/totally etc convincing
▪ Courtenay played the role in an utterly convincing way.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dependent
▪ They can no longer hunt properly and so are utterly dependent on us.
▪ He is utterly dependent on the corporation for both his economic and emotional security.
▪ Nancy Kwan played a mindless tart, utterly dependent upon men.
▪ As long as political parties are utterly dependent on monied donors, ordinary folks are unlikely to get in the gates.
different
▪ Some biochemists have built up quite elaborate blueprints for forms of life utterly different from our own.
▪ Such vanished cultures operated under belief systems so utterly different from ours that such a proposition is absurd.
▪ So there you have them, two utterly different Hillaries.
▪ I looked at the bleak, eerie landscape nearing us, so utterly different from the comfortable London world of human construction.
▪ This is intolerable because the two societies and cultures are utterly different.
▪ Something will have changed, become utterly different in a way that will gnaw at you, while it simultaneously intrigues you.
▪ I can extrapolate this deduction to other vertebrates but an arthropod has different reactions and an utterly different nervous system.
▪ Another utterly different approach to animal communication involves asking what the observed activities might be for.
impossible
▪ But actually neither of these two occurrences would be classified by science as utterly impossible.
▪ No, that was utterly impossible.
▪ Brasshats do, and, seemingly, leaders of nations find it utterly impossible.
▪ I personally was never interested in raising a family, but it would be utterly impossible in such a milieu.
ridiculous
▪ How utterly ridiculous! she chided herself sharply.
▪ It was entirely against her will and utterly ridiculous, but she could not seem to stop doing it.
▪ He looked utterly ridiculous, lounging untidily back against the door.
unable
▪ He lay in a dreamlike daze, utterly unable to distinguish between real and false memories.
▪ And one I had thus far been utterly unable to decode.
▪ I am utterly unable to guess.
■ VERB
become
▪ She was becoming utterly dreamy in this land.
▪ Something will have changed, become utterly different in a way that will gnaw at you, while it simultaneously intrigues you.
▪ It will be possible to look back and observe that those in love become utterly self-destructive.
▪ Beneath me June's body froze, becoming utterly immobile, lifeless.
▪ Like a chameleon, it moved out of the aisle between machines, then stopped, and became utterly motionless.
▪ You're becoming utterly spoiled by that wretched woman.
change
▪ It was certainly enough to change utterly Burton's fortunes on the stage.
▪ But by the mid-1980s the computer had changed utterly.
▪ Those days of walking and talking utterly changed the way I viewed the world.
▪ I knew that the whole world had changed utterly.
destroy
▪ A massive Roman army besieged Jerusalem, utterly destroying the Temple and razing the city to the ground.
▪ It was utterly destroyed on the orders of Cardinal Mazarin in 1659.
▪ If women committed crime, they were destroyed utterly.
▪ Thebes and Corinth wanted Athens to be utterly destroyed sooner than see her turned into a Spartan puppet.
▪ This, it was claimed, had utterly destroyed Brooke's reputation.
fail
▪ Many a case can be cited where business strategies of this kind have utterly failed.
▪ Not surprisingly, the bank has utterly failed in its mission to help the developing world.
▪ Against the implacable opposition of its lord, Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554.
▪ For instance, population control, which neither involved women nor took their point of view into consideration, had failed utterly.
▪ The attack against Beaumont-Hamel proved abortive, and a thrust made by the Third Army against Gommecourt failed utterly.
▪ There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives.
feel
▪ She expected to feel utterly changed.
▪ Ultimately. when these women fail to lose weight, they feel utterly disempowered.
▪ I feel utterly sick with myself.
▪ Upstairs, feeling utterly suicidal, Perdita looked round her tiny bare room.
▪ She felt utterly hemmed in by the panelled walls adorned with religious pictures, crucifixes, statues and ornate candlesticks.
▪ Faced by Constance's distress she felt utterly at sea and didn't know how to help her.
▪ He felt utterly friendless and Max Aitken arranged a luncheon for him which I attended.
look
▪ She looks utterly fabulous and bizarrely ageless, a perfect cross between a living Sindy doll and the girl next door.
▪ He could look utterly devastating when he wanted to.
▪ He looked utterly ridiculous, lounging untidily back against the door.
▪ She looked utterly spent; there was nothing to be gained by pressing her further.
seem
▪ Prost seemed utterly at ease with the pressure being put on him.
▪ Inside, the building seemed utterly cavernous.
▪ It seemed utterly incongruous that there were cars parked outside on the wide circular drive - carriages would have looked more appropriate.
▪ Today the cost seems utterly prohibitive, and Washington and Oregon would probably resist the engineers with tanks.
▪ Suddenly, it seemed utterly unbelievable, a mere figment of her dreamlike state.
▪ These sentences seemed utterly worthless to him.
▪ They were strict, serene, and at times seemed utterly unknowable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her comments about men are utterly ridiculous.
▪ We utterly reject the philosophy of compulsory wage control.
▪ Whether you like her or not is utterly irrelevant.
▪ Without their help it would have been utterly impossible to arrange the conference.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As for kabbalah, I found it utterly incomprehensible.
▪ At dinner he was utterly silent and tried to leave as soon as he had eaten sufficient but before the table was cleared.
▪ It is a place that is uncomfortable yet utterly familiar.
▪ Nevertheless, to conceive of parents as utterly static in the child's psychological life is likely to distort the picture grossly.
▪ Not surprisingly, the bank has utterly failed in its mission to help the developing world.
▪ She is utterly fearless and sure of herself, small in stature but large in moxie.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Utterly

Utterly \Ut"ter*ly\, adv. In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
utterly

early 13c., "truly, plainly, outspokenly," from utter (v.) + -ly (1); meaning "to an absolute degree" is late 14c., from utter (adj.)). Cf similarly formed German äusserlich. Old English uterlic (adj.) meant "external."

Wiktionary
utterly

adv. completely, entirely, to the fullest extent

WordNet
utterly
  1. adv. 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" [syn: absolutely, perfectly, dead]

  2. with sublimity; in a sublime manner; "awaking in me, sublimely unconscious, interest and energy for tackling these tasks" [syn: sublimely]

Usage examples of "utterly".

For ourselves, while whatever in us belongs to the body of the All should be yielded to its action, we ought to make sure that we submit only within limits, realizing that the entire man is not thus bound to it: intelligent servitors yield a part of themselves to their masters but in part retain their personality, and are thus less absolutely at beck and call, as not being slaves, not utterly chattels.

Ego camps still absolutize the noosphere, the Eco camps are still absolutizing the biosphere, utterly unaware that this contributes every bit as much as the Ego camps to the destruction of the biosphere itself.

Frederick West had also perfected a sexual harness to keep his victim utterly immobile while he and his wife abused her.

David and Deborah his manner remained always the same, jestingly ironic, scornfully loquacious, lovingly friendly of a sudden, then for a day, two days, a week utterly silent, while his eyes roved, his ears were acock listening for a step.

Venerian lives upon the bottom of an everlasting sea of fog and his thin epidermis, utterly without pigmentation, burns and blisters as frightfully at the least exposure to actinic light as does ours at the touch of a red-hot iron.

It is against reason, utterly to deny Likeness by these while admitting it by the greater: tradition at least recognizes certain men of the civic excellence as divine, and we must believe that these too had in some sort attained Likeness: on both levels there is virtue for us, though not the same virtue.

He looked aftward as he spoke, and saw that the other MACOs seemed to be utterly absorbed in some other tale of MACO derring-do.

I could see that she wished me to play my part in the revels, but my disgust had utterly deprived me of all my amorous faculties.

But it is conceivable that the now utterly lost branchiae might have been gradually worked in by natural selection for some quite distinct purpose: in the same manner as, on the view entertained by some naturalists that the branchiae and dorsal scales of Annelids are homologous with the wings and wing-covers of insects, it is probable that organs which at a very ancient period served for respiration have been actually converted into organs of flight.

Meliboeus of might, of power, of riches, and of friends, despising the power of his adversaries: and said utterly, that he anon should wreak him on his foes, and begin war.

Instead of going down to supper she returned to the solitude of her own room, but the apathy of the earlier part of the day had vanished utterly.

Kate slapped her hand over her mouth as she realized how utterly asinine that sounded.

Christian Socialists of the old Carr faction, who constitute a minority of far less than one per cent of the Socialist Party of the United States, have not only conceded the existence of an atheistic propaganda within the ranks, but have attacked it and utterly failed to suppress it.

The feelings of all the Caffre tribes were utterly hostile, and peace was only attainable by the exercise of indisputable force.

They openly denied the existence of any disembodied souls, avowing that men utterly perished in the grave.