completely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpliːtli/
Forms: form: more completely
form: most completely
Etymology: From complete + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Please completely fill in the box for your answer, using a number 2 pencil.
text: I will have completely finished my degree by next July, when my thesis has been properly edited.
text: It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 70, in Moby-Dick:
text: She completely abandoned her Tuesdays at home, and did not return the visits of those who had called upon her.
ref: 1899, Kate Chopin, chapter XIX, in The Awakening:
text: Lieutenant (junior grade) KERRY immediately maneuvered his craft through several strafing runs which completely silenced the enemy.
ref: 1969, E.R. Zumwalt, Jr., Silver Star Citation - John Kerry:
text: “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.”
ref: 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:
glosses: In a complete manner; thoroughly.
examples: text: He is completely mad.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control.
ref: 1968 June 8, Edward M. Kennedy, Tribute to Senator Robert F. Kennedy:
text: 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.
glosses: To the fullest extent or degree; totally.
Synonyms: sense: in a complete manner
word: fully
sense: in a complete manner
word: totally
sense: in a complete manner
word: utterly
sense: to the fullest degree
word: fully
sense: to the fullest degree
word: totally
sense: to the fullest degree
word: utterly
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: 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: totes
word: to the bone
word: to the core
word: to the full
word: well and truly
word: whole
word: whole cloth
word: wholly
Hypernyms: word: exactly
Hyponyms: word: verbatim
Derived terms: completely and utterly
completely metrizable
Related terms: word: alpha and omega
word: degree
word: extent
word: abundantly
word: but good
word: comprehensively
word: consistently
word: extensively
word: extremely
word: in spades
word: thoroughly
word: entire
word: entirety
word: everything
word: total
word: the dickens