English
Etymology
From complete + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəmˈpliːtli/
- Hyphenation: com‧plete‧ly
Adverb
completely (comparative more completely, superlative most completely)
- In a complete manner; thoroughly.
Please completely fill in the box for your answer, using a number 2 pencil.
I will have completely finished my degree by next July, when my thesis has been properly edited.
1851, Herman Melville, chapter 70, in Moby-Dick:It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded.
1899, Kate Chopin, chapter XIX, in The Awakening:She completely abandoned her Tuesdays at home, and did not return the visits of those who had called upon her.
1969, E.R. Zumwalt, Jr., Silver Star Citation - John Kerry:Lieutenant (junior grade) KERRY immediately maneuvered his craft through several strafing runs which completely silenced the enemy.
2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN[1]:“Temu is gone! What I saw today completely convinced me!” the user wrote. “Local sellers, despite obviously buying some items in advance in a bulk, don’t have all these items I was interested in.”
- To the fullest extent or degree; totally.
He is completely mad.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
- 1975, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students, Lesson 75: The light has come,
- Keep a completely open mind, washed of all past ideas and clean of every concept you have made.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
in a complete manner
- Albanian: krejtësisht (sq)
- Arabic: تَمَامًا (tamāman)
- Armenian: ամբողջովին (hy) (amboġǰovin)
- Asturian: completamente, dafechu
- Bulgarian: напълно (bg) (napǎlno), съвсем (bg) (sǎvsem)
- Catalan: completament (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 完全 (jyun4 cyun4)
- Mandarin: 完全 (zh) (wánquán), 徹底 / 彻底 (zh) (chèdǐ), 十分 (zh) (shífēn), 全部地 (quánbùde)
- Czech: zcela (cs), úplně (cs)
- Dagbani: chaɣibi
- Dutch: compleet (nl), volledig (nl), volkomen (nl)
- Esperanto: komplete
- Estonian: täielikult, täiesti (et)
- Finnish: täysin (fi), kokonaan (fi), tyystin (fi), tyyten, tykkänään (fi)
- French: complètement (fr)
- Galician: completamente (gl)
- Georgian: მთლიანად (mtlianad), სრულად (srulad)
- German: vollständig (de), völlig (de), ganz (de)
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐍉 (allandjō)
- Greek:
- Ancient: πάντως (pántōs), παντελῶς (pantelôs), ὅλως (hólōs), τελείως (teleíōs)
- Hebrew: לגמרי (he) (le'gamre'), לחלוטין (lakhalutín)
- Hindi: बिलकुल (hi) (bilkul), एकदम (ekdam)
- Hungarian: teljesen (hu)
- Ido: komplete (io)
- Italian: completamente (it), interamente (it), del tutto, totalmente (it), pienamente (it)
- Japanese: 全く (ja) (まったく, mattaku), 完全に (かんぜんに, kanzen ni), 完璧に (かんぺきに, kampeki ni), すっかり (ja) (sukkari)
- Khiamniungan Naga: thǖpēm
- Khmer: ស្រុង (km) (srong)
- Korean: 완전히 (ko) (wanjeonhi)
- Krio: kpatakpata
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بە تەواوی (be tewawî), بە یەکجاری (be yekcarî)
- Latin: admodum, plēnē
- Latvian: pilnīgi, pilnām
- Mongolian: бүрмөсөн (mn) (bürmösön)
- Norman: compliètement (Jersey)
- Occitan: completament
- Pashto: بېخي (ps) (bexi)
- Plautdietsch: gauns
- Polish: całkowicie (pl), w całości, bezdennie (when collocating with "głupi" (stupid)), bezwzględnie (pl)
- Portuguese: completamente (pt), totalmente (pt)
- Romanian: complet (ro), completamente (ro)
- Russian: соверше́нно (ru) (soveršénno), целико́м (ru) (celikóm), по́лностью (ru) (pólnostʹju), совсе́м (ru) (sovsém)
- Sanskrit: केवल (sa) (kevala)
- Scottish Gaelic: gu lèir
- Slovene: popôlnoma
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: ceło
- Spanish: completamente (es), enteramente (es), totalmente (es), del todo (es), de todo punto
- Swedish: fullständigt (sv)
- Tocharian B: attsaik
- Turkish: tamamen (tr)
- Ukrainian: по́вністю (póvnistju), цілко́м (uk) (cilkóm), зо́всім (zóvsim)
- Uzbek: butunlay (uz)
- Vietnamese: hoàn toàn (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Zazaki: temamen
- Zealandic: glad
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to the fullest extent or degree
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can:
- Egyptian Arabic: خالص (ḵāliṣ)
- Armenian: կատարելապես (hy) (katarelapes), լրիվ (hy) (lriv)
- Azerbaijani: tam şəkildə, tamamilə, bütünlüklə, tam sürətdə
- Belarusian: зусім (zusim), цалкам (calkam), ушчэнт (uščent)
- Catalan: totalment (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 十分 (zh) (shífēn), ...極了 / ...极了 (jí le), ...死了 (sǐ le)
- Czech: do mrtě (cs) (colloquial, idiomatic)
- Dutch: helemaal (nl)
- Esperanto: tute (eo), absolute (eo)
- Finnish: täysin (fi), täydellisen (fi)
- French: complètement (fr)
- German: vollumfänglich (de), ganz (de)
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐍉 (allandjō)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἄρδην (árdēn), πάγχυ (pánkhu)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can:
- Hungarian: egészen (hu), teljesen (hu)
- Icelandic: aldeilis (is)
- Ingrian: aivan, aivon
- Italian: completamente (it), interamente (it), del tutto, totalmente (it), pienamente (it)
- Japanese: 全く (ja) (まったく, mattaku), まるっきり (ja) (marukkiri)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: funditus
- Latvian: pilnīgi, pilnām
- Norman: compliètement (Jersey)
- Old Norse: ǫllungis
- Pashto: بېخي (ps) (bexi)
- Plautdietsch: gauns
- Polish: zupełnie (pl), totalnie (pl), całkowicie (pl), bez reszty (pl), do cna (pl), do spodu, do szczętu (pl), doszczętnie (pl), kompletnie (pl), na sto procent (pl)
- Portuguese: completamente (pt), totalmente (pt)
- Romanian: complet (ro), total (ro)
- Russian: соверше́нно (ru) (soveršénno), совсе́м (ru) (sovsém)
- Scottish Gaelic: dearg, gu lèir
- Slovene: popôlnoma
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: ceło
- Spanish: totalmente (es), rematadamente, de todo punto, plenamente (es), rotundamente (es)
- Swedish: fullständigt (sv)
- Ukrainian: зо́всім (zóvsim)
- Vietnamese: quá (vi), hẳn (vi)
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