completely

adv — 2 senses

completely

adv

/kəmˈpliːtli/

Etymology From complete + -ly.

1

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.
4 more examples
  • 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:
  • She completely abandoned her Tuesdays at home, and did not return the visits of those who had called upon her.1899, Kate Chopin, chapter XIX, in The Awakening:
  • Lieutenant (junior grade) KERRY immediately maneuvered his craft through several strafing runs which completely silenced the enemy.1969, E.R. Zumwalt, Jr., Silver Star Citation - John Kerry:
  • “Temu is gone! What I saw today completely convinced me!” the user wrote. “Local sellers, despite obviously buying some items in advance in a bulk, don’t have all these items I was interested in.”2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN:
2

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 to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
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  • 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:
  • 1975, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students, Lesson 75: The light has come, Keep a completely open mind, washed of all past ideas and clean of every concept you have made.
Synonyms
69 termsfully, 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, from head to toe, from soup to nuts, from stem to stern, from the rooter to the tooter, from top to bottom, from top to toe, handsomely, heartily, head to foot, head to tail, head to toe, hook, line, and sinker, in detail, in full, lock, stock, and barrel, one hundred percent, out-and-out, out and out, outright, particularly, perfectly, plumb, properly, purely, quite, right, root and branch, soundly, soup-to-nuts, straight up, through and through, top to tail, top to toe, totes, to the bone, to the core, to the full, well and truly, whole, whole cloth, wholly
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
Derived terms
completely and utterly, completely metrizable
Related terms
alpha and omega, degree, extent, abundantly, but good, comprehensively, consistently, extensively, extremely, in spades, thoroughly, entire, entirety, everything, total, the dickens
Hypernyms
exactly
Hyponyms
verbatim

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