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

Carvana is a combination auto retailer and internet-marketplace company and is likely to benefit from a growing familiarity with buying cars — which are most people’s second-largest purchase, after a home — completely online, he said.

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“This story is completely made up,” she wrote on X.

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A rare win in Brisbane is not completely out of the question, however.

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There was just one problem with Minnesota’s plan: the potential surplus value offered by McCarthy’s contract has been rendered obsolete by the fact he has been completely terrible.

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"Even instant noodles are being fought over now. Our food is gone; we need food and rice. Access to us is completely cut off."

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