Definition of Utterly

Utterly

In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.

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Utterly Quotations

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
Sophocles

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
Herodotus

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Aeschylus

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
Daniel Boone

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
Aleister Crowley

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
Thomas Huxley

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.
Tony Blair

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.
Angela Merkel

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
Martha Beck

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
Maimonides

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Joseph Conrad

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.
Robin Gibb

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
Jello Biafra

I'm an utterly average, total geek.
Julia Roberts

Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.
Julie Andrews

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
Kate Winslet

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
Anne Rice

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
Roger Ebert

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
Jules Renard

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Utterly Translations

utterly in German is absolut
utterly in Latin is prorsus, radicitus
utterly in Spanish is absolutamente
utterly in Swedish is totalt

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