Meaning of completely in English

completely

adverb

/kəmˈpliːt.li/ us

/kəmˈpliːt.li/

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in every way or as much as possible:

I agree with you completely.

She's completely mad.

He'd completely changed - I didn't recognize him.

Synonyms

totally

wholly

Opposite

partly

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The accident seemed to have completely destroyed his confidence.
Some of the things she does are completely mad.
She stood completely still, not making a sound.
Slowly add the flour, stirring until completely blended.
I got this job completely by chance.

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(Definition of completely from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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Similarly, their reward was neither fully local and financial nor completely global and philosophical.

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Addition of minocycline to cultures reduced but did not completely inhibit activation of this pathway.

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Interestingly, although the amplitude of the light response can be completely recovered, the characteristic feedback-induced rollback does not reappear.

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Although the copy numbers of the vector genome were reduced, our data did not rule out promoter shut-off completely.

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From the point of view of the higher-level authority, it remains a completely open question.

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Different forms of activity-traces have been preserved in different landscapes; some forms of evidence have been completely removed.

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In addition, there is an independent school sector, partially funded by both fee-paying students and completely private fee-paid schools.

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Within the shaded region, targets are completely detected and localised by the sensor.

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It is effectively a prodrug that is rapidly and completely metabolized and virtually all of its activity is due to its metabolites.

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Without rank-2 polymorphism, universal quantification must be completely "outside" all other types.

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However, many points remain unclear as the molecular characteristics and its physiological functions are far from being completely understood.

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Perhaps the most radical element of the film is that it completely eschews commentary.

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The separation was not observed in tissues that were prepared completely without water.

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It is difficult to review books that one finds completely convincing.

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In the case when design decisions were made probabilistically, the effects of the domain heuristics on the run time completely switched, significantly decreasing run time.

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完全地，徹底地, 十分地…

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