absolutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌl(j)uːt.li/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈl(j)uːt.li/
ipa: /ˈap.səˌlʉʊt.lɪi/
ipa: /ˌap.səˈlʉʊt.lɪi/
ipa: /ab-/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈlut.li/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut.li/
Forms: form: more absolutely
form: most absolutely
Etymology: From late Middle English absolutly, equivalent to absolute + -ly.
First attested in 1425.
Senses: synonyms: word: absolutely
word: all-out
word: all the way
word: altogether
word: at large
word: at length
word: cap-a-pie
word: categorically
word: completely
word: detailly
word: downright
word: entirely
word: exhaustively
word: finally
word: first and last
word: flat-out
word: flat out
word: from aardvark to zymurgy
word: from A to Z
word: from head to toe
word: from soup to nuts
word: from stem to stern
word: from the rooter to the tooter
word: from top to bottom
word: from top to toe
word: fully
word: handsomely
word: heartily
word: head to foot
word: head to tail
word: head to toe
word: hook
word: line
word: and sinker
word: in detail
word: in full
word: lock
word: stock
word: and barrel
word: one hundred percent
word: out-and-out
word: out and out
word: outright
word: particularly
word: perfectly
word: plumb
word: purely
word: quite
word: right
word: root and branch
word: soundly
word: soup-to-nuts
word: straight up
word: through and through
word: top to tail
word: top to toe
word: totally
word: totes
word: to the bone
word: to the core
word: to the full
word: utterly
word: well and truly
word: whole
word: whole cloth
word: wholly
glosses: In an absolute or unconditional manner; utterly, positively, wholly.
examples: text: Another characteristic of numbers, which does not concern their mutual relations so much as themselves absolutely, is their ability, according to the ideas of Nicomachus, to conform to geometrical arrangements.
ref: 1926, Nicomachus of Gerasa, Frank Egleston Robbins, Louis Charles Karpinski, translated by Martin Luther D'Ooge, Introduction to Arithmetic, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 50:
synonyms: word: absolutely
word: abstractedly
word: abstractly
word: apart
word: discretely
word: independently
word: individually
word: separately
word: serely
word: severally
word: singly
word: sunderling
word: sunderly
word: together
word: uniquely
glosses: Independently; viewed without relation to other things or factors.
examples: text: But when it came to posing for publicity pictures they proved absolutely brilliant doing just what came naturally.
ref: 1958 May 5, “Seasons' Sign in Sweden”, in LIFE, page 15:
text: The strength of the mouse is absolutely spectacular for various kinds of issues, until you find out that the mouse has absolutely no extracellular matrix to speak of in his optic nerve head.
ref: 1995, Abbot F. Clark, Sherry Browder, H. Thomas Steely, Karen Wilson, David Cantu-Crouch, Mitchell D. McCartney, “Cell Biology of the Human Lamina Cribrosa”, in Stephen M. Drance, editor, Optic Nerve in Glaucoma, Kugler Publications, page 103:
text: The most absolutely terrifying creature lifted her head.
ref: 2018, Adam Cece, The Unbelievably Scary Thing That Happened in Huggabie Falls, Text Publishing, page 212:
glosses: As an intensive: extremely, very, indeed.
Derived terms: absatively
absitively
absobloodylutely
absofreakinglutely
absofreakinlutely
absofuckinglutely
absolutely cinematic
absolutely convergent
absolutely flat
absolutely summable
absotively
posilutely
positutely
posolutely
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely