Word Finder - utter

definition

Outer; furthest out, most remote.

definition

Outward.

definition

Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.

example

utter ruin; utter darkness

Unable to utter the word, are you?

For a long time he could not utter a word, so that the Rhetor had to repeat his question.

The other guests, standing nearby, gaped in utter shock.

They've brought us to utter ruin!

First, he felt utter confusion, then anger.

No one has ever heard him utter a groan or a word of complaint.

Suddenly he flicked off the flashlight, plunging them into utter darkness as she stumbled against him.

The thought of us residing in utter blindness petrified me!

Rusty hinges were still visible in the wood but no door barred the entrance nor could anything be seen beyond but utter blackness.

Clement exhibits the absurdity and immorality of the stories told with regard to the pagan deities, the cruelties perpetrated in their worship, and the utter uselessness of bowing down before images made by hands.

He could not utter them, though he wished to do so.

Petya wished to say "Good night" but could not utter a word.

She spoke with total resignation, utter defeat as she looked up at me.

In order to understand the utter inability of the old republican party to withstand these changes, it is needful to retrace our steps and consider the skilful use made by Bonaparte of plots and disturbances as they occurred.

It was almost dark when the Prussians approached the French position between Rezonville and the woods to the northward, and the troops soon lost direction in the smoke and became involved in the direst confusion; the firing again blazed out for a few moments, only to die away as utter exhaustion at length put an end to the Prussian advance.

Impious sinners, or enemies of the community and its god, might be devoted to utter destruction.

Beyond reasonable doubt, however, the writer seeks to take out the sting of the preceding passage in which Israel is devoted to utter destruction.

We have come, in fact, to the age of utter shamelessness, when disappointed place-hunters openly invoked foreign aid against their own country.

The impulse to utter audible sounds had always been strong within me.

When Deb found herself in a way station to heaven, she disagreed with her angel Fred's assessment of her utter lack of substance (she'd done nothing bad or good throughout her life).

When alarmed, they rush to their burrows, and if these are disturbed utter a growling sound.

In the age of the Council of Nice the custom arose of baptizing children of three, because at that age they can already talk and utter the baptismal vows and responses.

Man's utter incapacity to do anything to please God, and his utter personal dependence on God's grace seemed to render the whole system of the Church well-nigh gratuitous even if it were purged of all the " sophistry " which to Luther seemed to bury out of sight all that was essential in religion.

From sheer weariness and disgust the king refrained from any intervention in public affairs for nearly ten years, looking on indifferently while the ever shorter and stormier diets wrangled perpetually over questions of preferment and the best way of dealing with the extreme dissenters, to the utter neglect of public business.

The instinctive certainty that there is a supreme good, lying beyond empirical experience, and yet not an intellectual good - this feeling, and the accompanying conviction of the utter vanity of all earthly things, were produced and sustained by Neoplatonism.

The assault was made, but it proved an utter failure.

Wallis's Elenchus geometriae Hobbianae, published in 1655 about three months after the De corpore, contained also an elaborate criticism of Hobbes's whole attempt to relay the foundations of mathematical science in its place within the general body of reasoned knowledge - a criticism which, if it failed to allow for the merit of the conception, exposed only too effectually the utter inadequacy of the result.

For some time Hobbes was not even allowed to utter a word of protest, whatever might be the occasion that his enemies took to triumph over him.

The impulsive character of the emperor, which led him, with the best intentions and often with excellent effect, to interfere everywhere and in everything and to utter opinions often highly inconvenient to his ministers, was the subject of an interpellation in the Reichstag on the 20th of January 1903 by the Socialist Herr von Vollmar, himself a Bavarian.

At a time when much speaking has depressed, has almost exterminated eloquence, he maintained that robust, powerful and vigorous style in which he gave fitting expression to the burning and noble thoughts he desired to utter."

In such cases he was not slow to utter terrible threats against those who ridiculed the preaching of the unity of God, of the resurrection, and of the judgment.

When that area in man is injured, the ability to utter words is impaired.

This is the most satisfactory, as it is the most obvious, explanation of his utter indifference in presence of one of the most momentous problems that ever pressed for solution on an English statesman.

Through these two dancers, the classical idiom truly becomes a language, which they utter with utmost expressive clarity.

Do not exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth.

It is a scene of utter desolation, not a human being or animal to be seen.

A little fellow sits on my shoulder, and if the ego is swelling says " remember you are a complete and utter wanker!

Theoretically you could use any sound or word you can utter.

In a New York Times editorial, Brooke responded by saying Tom displayed an "utter lack of understanding about postpartum depression and childbirth in general."

Some might find the style comedic, while others note the approximate $500.00 US price tag with utter despair.

The complete and utter lack of response can imitate deafness, and tests should be performed to rule out hearing impairment.

The late Leslie Nielsen co-stars, and was the first to utter the classic phrase, "Yes, I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."

Below, he could see a displaced boulder and disturbed earth before the slope dropped off at an impossible angle into utter blackness.

If Deidre found pleasure in funnel cakes and warm socks, she found utter ecstasy in Gabriel's arms.

His gaze drifted over her dress, saying what his lips refused to utter.

It was a lesson intended to teach the Netherlanders the utter futility of opposition to the will of their lord.

On the other hand the democratic tone which distinguishes Micah from Isaiah, and his announcement of the impending fall of the capital (the deliverance of which from the Assyrian appears to Isaiah as the necessary condition for the preservation of the seed of a new and better kingdom), are explained by the fact that, while Isaiah lived in the centre of affairs, Micah, a provincial prophet, sees the capital and the aristocracy entirely from the side of a man of the oppressed people, and foretells the utter ruin of both.

He was left to maintain the siege of Adrianople when Baldwin advanced to attack the relieving force, and with Dandolo had much to do in saving the defeated crusaders from utter destruction, and conducting the retreat, in which he commanded the rearguard, and brought his troops in safety to the sea of Rodosto, and thence to the capital.

In the 16th century a spirit of universal questioning was rife, and it is this utter unsettlement of opinion which is reflected in the discussions of doubts on matters only remotely connected with " the faith once for all delivered unto the saints " (Jude 3).

Incidentally they prove, to the utter confusion of a certain school of Bible critics, that the art of writing was familiarly known in Canaan, and that Egypt and western Asia were in full literary connexion with one another, long before the time of the Exodus.