completely

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com·plete·ly /kəmˈpliːtli/ S1 W2 adverbadv

COMPLETELYto the greatest degree possible 完全地，全部地，彻底地 SYN totally

I completely forgot that it’s his birthday today.

我完全忘了今天是他的生日。

He had never completely recovered from his illness.

他病后一直没有完全康复。

a completely new range of low-cost computers

全新的低价电脑系列

I’m not completely sure.

我不能十分肯定。

Portuguese is pronounced completely differently from Spanish.

葡萄牙语的发音和西班牙语的完全不同。

n THESAURUS

completely to the greatest degree or in every way

That’s a completely different subject.

Bad weather had completely destroyed the crops.

totally/absolutely especially spoken completely

I’m totally exhausted.

He’s absolutely right.

entirely completely – used especially in negative sentences or after ‘almost’

I’m not entirely sure.

The community is almost entirely dependent on farming.

utterly completely – used especially to emphasize strongly disapproving words

It was utterly impossible to work in the house.

The whole thing is utterly absurd.

fully 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.

Examples from the Corpus

completely• Flannery was the first to go completely.• For a while, the adoption program shut down completely.• The only way Glass could overcome this irreconcilable difference was by doing away with the bar lines completely.• Once the program is installed, it runs completely automatically.• Keith's dad was completely different from what I'd expected.• Muscle cells and fat cells are completely different kinds of tissue.• I intended to give you the card on Saturday but I completely forgot.• His knee is not completely healed.• Sometimes the UK seems completely isolated from the main stream of European culture.• It amazed her now how completely love could abrade those sharp edges.• She felt completely relaxed.• The carpet is completely ruined.• Devastated ... he's completely smashed me to bits, she thought, just as I knew he would.• There was sand on the ground, about four inches deep, completely surrounding the building.• Its principle was completely understood, and was opposed with equal zeal and ability.• They are completely without inhibition, a bus fall of preteens on a field trip.

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