completely

[kuhm-pleet-lee]

adverb

1. to the whole amount or extent; fully.

   Although the river never dries up completely, there are times when the water is barely a trickle.

2. thoroughly; totally.

   I was so completely disoriented by the chiming of Big Ben as I stood below it that I walked into someone with my ice cream.

   Great storytelling and successful social media campaigns are completely interconnected.

Other Word Forms

• quasi-completely adverb
• subcompletely adverb
• uncompletely adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of completely¹

complete + -ly

Example Sentences

"Once a piece has completely broken off, it no longer produces earthquakes because the rocks aren't stuck together anymore," Shuck explained.

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“The fear is that once quantum computers can break that encryption key relatively easily, that data becomes completely open to anyone,” he noted.

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They were utterly obliterated by a Blue Jays squad that seemed completely oblivious to the idea that they were here to serve as spectators to the Dodgers’ inevitable coronation.

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Beth Ashton, 25, weighed less than her four-year-old sister, had a perforated lung and her bladder had "completely collapsed" by the time she died last November.

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"The bath was completely level at the top with faeces, the toilet was full of faeces, kitchen was disgusting, the floor was moving with fleas," he said.

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