Complete, perfect, utter; = sheer, adj. 8. Also (with a negative), mere, bare.

Chiefly attributive. Used emphatically or as an intensifier: nothing but (the thing specified); sheer, utter, complete, total, unmitigated.

Such as a person or thing of the kind specified should be; admirable, excellent, fine; of high quality; of consequence, serious, worthy of…

Unmistakable; sheer, pure, absolute, utter, downright. Chiefly attributive as an intensifier.

Where nothing is left behind; entire, complete, total, perfect, sheer. (Influenced by the adverb; with ‘a clean sweep’ cf. to sweep clean at sweep, v.…

Of a person. Modifying a depreciative designation: egregious; absolute, downright. In later use chiefly as an intensifier; cf. right, adj. 13e. Cf…

Of a quality, state of feeling, condition, fact, or action: Realized in its full extent, thorough, complete, total. (entire affection, friendship…

Emphasizing nouns which denote extremity of degree or extent.

Sheer, absolute, unqualified; complete, out-and-out, utter. Cf. sense B. 2.

Going to the utmost point; extreme, absolute, complete, entire, total.

Absolute, extreme; final.

That is what it is in the full sense of the term qualified; nothing short of (what is expressed by the following noun); absolute, sheer, perfect…

Complete or entire in degree; in the fullest sense. Frequently used for emphasis.

Downright, out-and-out, thorough; blatant, manifest.

Free from all limitation, qualification, question, or shortcoming; absolute, complete; entire, pure, sheer. Cf. clean, adj.

colloquial. As an intensifier: absolute, downright, utter. Formerly sometimes in a negative sense: awful, terrible. More recently also as a mere…

Unapproachable.

Unrelieved by conditions or qualifications; absolute, downright, unqualified, plain; peremptory. Now chiefly of a denial, contradiction, etc., and…

That is thoroughly or entirely (what is denoted by the noun); outright, absolute, unmitigated, utter.

Neither more nor less than (what is expressed by the noun); that and nothing else; unmitigated, unqualified; downright, absolute, pure. Cf. mere…

Absolute, complete, thoroughgoing; (also) simple, straightforward. Now rare.

Undivided, unbroken, absolute. rare.

colloquial. Utter, thorough. Obsolete. rare.

Completely corresponding to a definition, pattern, or description. Chiefly colloquial. Unmitigated, utter; sheer; absolute; veritable. Chiefly in…

Downright, absolute, complete. Cf. even down, adj. 2, right-down, adj. Obsolete. rare.

Hence: Absolute, unqualified, unmitigated, as in implicit ignorance. Obsolete.

Entire in every respect. Obsolete.

Of emotions: Prostrating the whole faculties; unrelieved, helpless, stark, sheer.

transitive. To disable or knock out. Also intransitive: to be extinguished, to go out.

Without opprobrious sense: Thorough, downright absolute, unquestionable. Obsolete.

Unapproachably high; very high.

Thoroughgoing, complete, thorough, out-and-out.

Downright, sheer, out-and-out; absolute.

Absolute, complete, entire, thorough, downright. Also dead-earnest in adjectival use.

dyed twice; figurative deeply imbued or stained (with guilt, etc.).

Chiefly in form thorough-stitch. Thoroughgoing, out-and-out. Later also: thorough, exhaustive. Now archaic and rare.

In later use chiefly in form thorough-stitched. = through stitch, adj. Now archaic and rare.

Complete in extent or degree; absolute, utter. total recall: see total recall at recall, n. 3a.

Chiefly of a person or an attribute of a person: going the full length; doing things thoroughly; uncompromising; (hence attributive) exemplifying a…

thoroughly accomplished or developed; perfect, thoroughgoing.

Chiefly colloquial. As an intensifier: complete, absolute, utter, veritable. Cf. proper, adj. 7d.

Downright, absolute; thorough; utter. Now chiefly North American colloquial.

Complete, thorough, out-and-out. colloquial.

(un-, prefix1 affix 2.)

Unqualified, absolute; complete, utter, out-and-out.

stick, stock, stone dead: completely or unquestionably dead. Cf. stone-dead adj. at stone, n. compounds 3a(a). Now somewhat rare.

That is fully or completely what is expressed by the noun, without reservation, equivocation, or qualification; that is intrinsically so…

Used emphatically or as an intensifier: of the worst kind; monstrous, gross. Later also in weakened use: complete and utter, absolute.

Used emphatically: nothing but (the thing specified); utter, complete, unmitigated. Obsolete. rare.

(See quot. 1825 and cf. skire, adv.)

Thorough, downright, vigorous, etc. Used with intensive force and frequently strengthened by good, right, etc.

colloquial (frequently Australian and New Zealand). Unquestionable, absolute; complete, utter. Frequently as an intensifier. Cf. right, adj. 13e.

dialect. Absolute, complete, perfect, entire. (More emphatic than total.) Cf. teetotally, adv.1

Complete, thorough, arrant. Also as adv.

In a natural state; not yet processed or worked. figurative. Of a quality or faculty: pure, unmitigated; sheer.

colloquial. Used in figurative or hyperbolic expressions to add emphasis or as an intensifier: veritable, real; complete, absolute, utter. Cf. lit…

figurative. Esp. of victory or defeat: emphatic, total; unequivocal, unmistakable.

colloquial. In emphatic use: that is obviously or unequivocally the thing mentioned; full-blooded, wholehearted; unqualified, out-and-out…

Usually in form all-out. Carried out with or involving the utmost effort; vigorous. Hence: total, complete; full-blown.

Used as an intensifier. fucking hell: see hell, int. Cf. also motherfucking, adj. 1.

slang. Chiefly as an intensifier: extreme, utter, absolute.

(a) thoroughgoing, unalloyed, out-and-out; (b) genuine, flawless, trustworthy.

Complete, all-out; forceful, powerful, sweeping. Also hyphenated.

Intensively with adjectives in non-similative use (after stone-broke adj. at compounds 2a): completely, utterly, ‘plumb’, as stone crazy, stone drunk…

colloquial (chiefly British). As an intensifier: outright, utter. Frequently in diabolical liberty. Cf. devilish, adj. 4a.

Contemptible, damnable. Frequently in weakened use as an intensifier.

U.S. slang. As an intensifier: complete, utter; out-and-out.

Contemptible, despicable, damnable. Also in weakened use as an intensifier (cf. fucking, adj. 2).

Chiefly depreciative. As an intensifier: absolute, utter, out-and-out. Cf. raging, adj. 4.