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utterly

adv
/ˈʌtəli/UK/ˈʌtɚli/US/ˈʊtəli/

Etymology

From utter + -ly.

  1. derived from *ūtanā✻ — “from outside or without; outside of”
  2. derived from ūtan
  3. derived from üteren
  4. derived from uteren — “to announce, make known”
  5. inherited from outren
  6. suffixed as utterly — “utter + -ly”

Definitions

  1. Completely

    Completely; entirely; to the fullest extent.

    • Well, now we are utterly lost.
    • I have failed you utterly.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at utterly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01utterly02entirely03solely04exclusively05exclusion06consideration07needs08indispensably09indispensable10absolutely

A definitional loop anchored at utterly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at utterly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA