utterlyut‧ter‧ly /ˈʌtəli $ -ər-/ ●●○ adverb [+adjective/adverb] 
You look utterly miserable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Her comments about men are utterly ridiculous.
- We utterly reject the philosophy of compulsory wage control.
- Whether you like her or not is utterly irrelevant.
- Without their help it would have been utterly impossible to arrange the conference.
- As for kabbalah, I found it utterly incomprehensible.
- At dinner he was utterly silent and tried to leave as soon as he had eaten sufficient but before the table was cleared.
- It is a place that is uncomfortable yet utterly familiar.
- Nevertheless, to conceive of parents as utterly static in the child's psychological life is likely to distort the picture grossly.
- Not surprisingly, the bank has utterly failed in its mission to help the developing world.
- She is utterly fearless and sure of herself, small in stature but large in moxie.
THESAURUS
to the greatest degree or in every way: · That’s a completely different subject.· Bad weather had completely destroyed the crops.
especially spoken completely: · I’m totally exhausted.· He’s absolutely right.
completely – used especially in negative sentences or after ‘almost’: · I’m not entirely sure.· The community is almost entirely dependent on farming.
completely – used especially to emphasize strongly disapproving words: · It was utterly impossible to work in the house.· The whole thing is utterly absurd.
completely – used especially to show that you completely understand something or that you have all the information you need: · He was fully aware of what was happening.· The disease is still not fully understood.
Longman Language Activatora complaint · The carpet is completely ruined.· She felt completely relaxed.· Keith's dad was completely different from what I'd expected.· I intended to give you the card on Saturday but I completely forgot.· Sometimes the UK seems completely isolated from the main stream of European culture.
especially spoken say this when you strongly agree with something or approve of something, or to emphasize strong adjectives: absolutely right/correct: · You're absolutely right - we can't all fit in one car.absolutely marvellous/amazing/brilliant: · That's an absolutely brilliant idea.absolutely certain/sure: · Are you absolutely sure you don't mind?absolutely exhausted/soaked/ruined etc: · By the end of the day, I was absolutely exhausted.
use this especially to say that you have completely understood something or have everything that you need: fully understand/realize/appreciate: · I can fully understand your concern.fully aware/informed: · Please keep me fully informed of any developments.fully furnished/equipped: · The house is fully furnished, including washer and dryer.
use this especially to show that you completely disagree with something or that you are very annoyed about it: totally refuse/ignore/reject etc: · He totally ignored my advice.totally impossible/unacceptable/ridiculous etc: · What you're saying is totally ridiculous.· Myers said that a two-year prison sentence for rape was totally unacceptable and inadequate.
completely and in every possible way - use this especially in negative sentences, or with 'almost': · At the very beginning of the project, Paul made it clear that he would be entirely in control.not entirely: · I'm not entirely sure what she meant.· The reasons for his departure weren't entirely clear.consist entirely of: · The audience consisted almost entirely of journalists.depend entirely on: · The foundation depends entirely on voluntary contributions.
in every possible way - use this especially in negative sentences: not wholly responsible/reliable/committed etc: · The evidence we have is not wholly reliable.· The commission found that the officer on duty at the time was not wholly responsible.wholly unacceptable/unexpected/unfounded etc: · The city council's proposals are wholly unacceptable.· Help came from a wholly unexpected source.
use this especially to describe things that are completely wrong, untrue, impossible etc: utterly impossible/useless/worthless etc: · Without their help it would have been utterly impossible to arrange the conference.· Whether you like her or not is utterly irrelevant.utterly reject/spoil/destroy etc: · We utterly reject the philosophy of compulsory wage control.
use this to talk about an extreme situation or something extreme that someone has done: positively disgusting/harmful/dangerous etc: · The food in this place isn't just bad, it's positively disgusting.· Her performance was positively marvellous.
use this to emphasize how strong a feeling or quality is or how bad a situation is: · It was a complete surprise - I didn't have any idea they were planning a party.· Don't pay any attention to him - the guy's a total idiot!· Nobody can say with absolute certainty how much oil there is in Alaska.· By any measurement, our corrections program is an utter failure.
use this to say that something is true in every detail or part: · The two drawings are identical in every way.· The plans are unworkable in every respect.
use this when a word or phrase that you say is true in every possible way that it could be understood: · There are still men who want to be in every sense, the "head of the household'.in every sense of the word: · She was a true sportswoman -- a professional in every sense of the word.
if someone is good, bad etc through and through , every part of their character and behaviour shows that they are like that: · Don't trust him. He's rotten through and through.· Einstein was a realist through and through.· After 30 years in Queensland, he felt he was an Australian through and through.
: whole-heartedly agree/approve/support etc completely and willingly: · Her father whole-heartedly approved of their decision to get married.· Rowan whole-heartedly agreed that the company needed to do more to improve its ties to the community.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Courtenay played the role in an utterly convincing way. Their behaviour was absolutely disgraceful. a statistic that is absolutely meaningless
completely – used especially to emphasize that something is very bad, or that a feeling is very strong: (=very definitely and with no doubts)· We utterly condemn any acts of violence.
Courtenay played the role in an utterly convincing way. Their behaviour was absolutely disgraceful.· Looking after a baby on my own left me feeling totally exhausted.
a statistic that is absolutely meaningless· You look absolutely ridiculous in that short skirt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· They can no longer hunt properly and so are utterly dependent on us.· He is utterly dependent on the corporation for both his economic and emotional security.· Nancy Kwan played a mindless tart, utterly dependent upon men.· As long as political parties are utterly dependent on monied donors, ordinary folks are unlikely to get in the gates.
· Some biochemists have built up quite elaborate blueprints for forms of life utterly different from our own.· Such vanished cultures operated under belief systems so utterly different from ours that such a proposition is absurd.· So there you have them, two utterly different Hillaries.· I looked at the bleak, eerie landscape nearing us, so utterly different from the comfortable London world of human construction.· This is intolerable because the two societies and cultures are utterly different.· Something will have changed, become utterly different in a way that will gnaw at you, while it simultaneously intrigues you.· I can extrapolate this deduction to other vertebrates but an arthropod has different reactions and an utterly different nervous system.· Another utterly different approach to animal communication involves asking what the observed activities might be for.
· But actually neither of these two occurrences would be classified by science as utterly impossible.· No, that was utterly impossible.· Brasshats do, and, seemingly, leaders of nations find it utterly impossible.· I personally was never interested in raising a family, but it would be utterly impossible in such a milieu.
· How utterly ridiculous! she chided herself sharply.· It was entirely against her will and utterly ridiculous, but she could not seem to stop doing it.· He looked utterly ridiculous, lounging untidily back against the door.
· He lay in a dreamlike daze, utterly unable to distinguish between real and false memories.· And one I had thus far been utterly unable to decode.· I am utterly unable to guess.
VERB· She was becoming utterly dreamy in this land.· Something will have changed, become utterly different in a way that will gnaw at you, while it simultaneously intrigues you.· It will be possible to look back and observe that those in love become utterly self-destructive.· Beneath me June's body froze, becoming utterly immobile, lifeless.· Like a chameleon, it moved out of the aisle between machines, then stopped, and became utterly motionless.· You're becoming utterly spoiled by that wretched woman.
· It was certainly enough to change utterly Burton's fortunes on the stage.· But by the mid-1980s the computer had changed utterly.· Those days of walking and talking utterly changed the way I viewed the world.· I knew that the whole world had changed utterly.
· A massive Roman army besieged Jerusalem, utterly destroying the Temple and razing the city to the ground.· It was utterly destroyed on the orders of Cardinal Mazarin in 1659.· If women committed crime, they were destroyed utterly.· Thebes and Corinth wanted Athens to be utterly destroyed sooner than see her turned into a Spartan puppet.· This, it was claimed, had utterly destroyed Brooke's reputation.
· Many a case can be cited where business strategies of this kind have utterly failed.· Not surprisingly, the bank has utterly failed in its mission to help the developing world.· Against the implacable opposition of its lord, Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554.· For instance, population control, which neither involved women nor took their point of view into consideration, had failed utterly.· The attack against Beaumont-Hamel proved abortive, and a thrust made by the Third Army against Gommecourt failed utterly.· There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives.
· She expected to feel utterly changed.· Ultimately. when these women fail to lose weight, they feel utterly disempowered.· I feel utterly sick with myself.· Upstairs, feeling utterly suicidal, Perdita looked round her tiny bare room.· She felt utterly hemmed in by the panelled walls adorned with religious pictures, crucifixes, statues and ornate candlesticks.· Faced by Constance's distress she felt utterly at sea and didn't know how to help her.· He felt utterly friendless and Max Aitken arranged a luncheon for him which I attended.
· She looks utterly fabulous and bizarrely ageless, a perfect cross between a living Sindy doll and the girl next door.· He could look utterly devastating when he wanted to.· He looked utterly ridiculous, lounging untidily back against the door.· She looked utterly spent; there was nothing to be gained by pressing her further.
· Prost seemed utterly at ease with the pressure being put on him.· Inside, the building seemed utterly cavernous.· It seemed utterly incongruous that there were cars parked outside on the wide circular drive - carriages would have looked more appropriate.· Today the cost seems utterly prohibitive, and Washington and Oregon would probably resist the engineers with tanks.· Suddenly, it seemed utterly unbelievable, a mere figment of her dreamlike state.· These sentences seemed utterly worthless to him.· They were strict, serene, and at times seemed utterly unknowable.
You look utterly miserable.