perfectlyadverb
uk/ˈpɜː.fekt.li/us/ˈpɝː.fekt.li/B1 in a perfect way:
The jacket fits perfectly, the skirt not so well.
They're perfectly suited.
B2 used to emphasize the word that follows:
To be perfectly honest, I don't care any more.
You know perfectly well what the matter is.
I made it perfectly clear to him what I meant.
I was perfectly happy on my own.
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- With her qualifications, she should fit the job perfectly.
- Those two lines of poetry express perfectly the profound sadness of loss.
- There's no need to shout, I can hear perfectly well.
- The earth is not perfectly spherical.
- She sat perfectly still while I took her photograph.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Perfect and faultless
- Arcadia
- consummate
- faultless
- flawless
- golden age
- idyllic
- immaculate
- impeccable
- irreproachable
- land
- land of milk and honey idiom
- mint
- perfect
- Prince Charming
- Shangri-La
- sin 1
- storybook
- tee
- to a tee idiom
- unblemished
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