completely

Adverb

• to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
  • "it was completely different from what we expected"
  • "was completely at fault"
• so as to be complete; with everything necessary
  • "he had filled out the form completely"
  • "the apartment was completely furnished"

Adv

• In a complete manner; thoroughly.
• To the fullest extent or degree; totally.

Examples

• He is completely mad.
• I will have completely finished my degree by next July, when my thesis has been properly edited.
• Please completely fill in the box for your answer, using a number 2 pencil.

Synonyms

all, altogether, entirely, totally, whole, wholly, absolutely, all the way, all-out, and barrel, and sinker, at large, at length, cap-a-pie, categorically, completely, detailly, downright, exhaustively, finally, first and last, flat out, flat-out, from A to Z, from aardvark to zymurgy, from head to toe, from soup to nuts, from stem to stern, from the rooter to the tooter, from top to bottom, from top to toe, fully, head to foot, head to tail, head to toe, heartily, hook, in detail, in full, line, lock, one hundred percent, out and out, out-and-out, outright, particularly, perfectly, plumb, purely, quite, right, root and branch, soundly, soup-to-nuts, stock, through and through, to the bone, to the core, to the full, top to tail, top to toe, totes, utterly, well and truly, whole cloth

Antonyms

partly, after a fashion, barely, half-assedly, hardly, in a sense, in a way, incompletely, inconsistently, moderately, partially, poorly, somewhat, spottily, to an extent

Related Words

abundantly, alpha and omega, but good, comprehensively, consistently, degree, entire, entirety, everything, extensively, extent, extremely, in spades, the dickens, thoroughly, total