completely and utterly: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

  • 1.

    WorldwideUKUSinformalcolloquialemphatic
    • Totally and without qualification; used as a strong adverbial intensifier to modify adjectives, verbs, or participles.
    • Entirely or absolutely, often employed to emphasize a complete state or condition.

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    • The meeting was completely and utterly pointless, as no decisions were made.

      La reunión fue completamente e absolutamente inútil, ya que no se tomaron decisiones.

    • I was completely and utterly exhausted after running the marathon last weekend.

      Estaba completamente y absolutamente agotado después de correr el maratón el fin de semana pasado.

    • She completely and utterly denied any involvement in the scandal during the interview.

      Ella negó completa y absolutamente cualquier implicación en el escándalo durante la entrevista.

Examples:

  • EN: Mr. Ernesto is completely and utterly lost.
    ES: El Sr. Ernesto está completamente perdido.
  • EN: He became completely and utterly obsessed with the idea that the legendary Hound of the Baskervilles was going to return to destroy him.
    ES: Se volvió totalmente obsesivo con la idea de que el legendario Perro de los Baskervilles iba a regresar para matarlo.
  • EN: ' On the contrary, Herbert. I belong here completely and utterly.
    ES: Al contrario... pertenezco absolutamente a este mundo.
  • EN: And now I'm completely and utterly depressed.
    ES: Y ahora estoy completa y totalmente deprimida.
  • EN: What I'm about to do is completely and utterly impossible.
    ES: Lo que estoy a punto de hacer es absolutamente imposible.
  • EN: And the last one... completely and utterly blindfolded.
    ES: Y la última, sin ver absolutamente nada.
  • EN: This is completely and utterly your fault.
    ES: Esto es completamente tu culpa
  • EN: Have you gone completely and utterly out of your mind?
    ES: ¿Te has vuelto total y completamente loca?
  • EN: -I am completely and utterly without a body.
    ES: ¿Crei que ya sabías?
  • EN: This is the part where I watch you and tell you how much I want you... and you torment me until I'm just completely and utterly psyched out.
    ES: ¿Ahora es cuando te veo y te digo cuánto te quiero, y tú me atormentas hasta volverme completamente loco?
  • EN: You are a pathological hypochondriac... meaning, you are completely and utterly self-obsessed.
    ES: Eres un hipocondriaco patológico. Estás total y completamente obsesionado contigo.
  • EN: No girlfriend no friend, just completely and utterly alone.
    ES: Terminarás terriblemente solo.
  • EN: It is completely and utterly irrelevant who is responsible. It is enough that there's someone out there with such a devastating weapon.
    ES: Es completa y absolutamente irrelevante quién es el responsable, es suficiente que haya alguien por ahí que disponga de esta arma devastadora.
  • EN: This is so embarrassing, but I am completely and utterly lost.
    ES: Esto es muy vergonzoso, pero estoy completamente perdida.
  • EN: I've been completely and utterly sacked!
    ES: Fui completa y definitivamente despedida.

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