adverb
definition
Completely, entirely, to the fullest extent
example
I have failed you utterly.
Examples of utterly in a Sentence
It was so utterly beautiful - so serene.
It all sounds so utterly stupid now.
She was utterly unable to recall either the name of the story or the book.
She gave in to the rush of desire, knowing that wherever he led, she could count on an utterly delightful experience.
For a moment she felt the dull aching pain of being utterly alone.
She felt horrible thinking it, but she was utterly relieved whoever it was on the beach, it wasn't Logan.
What an utterly stupid thing to say.
According to the latter theory, the offspring of a given organism may be utterly different from itself,.
It was a silly thing to do... utterly pointless.
Their fleet was attacked at Meloria by the Pisans, and utterly defeated.
Failing in an attempt to arrange terms, and also in obtaining the help which he solicited from France, O'Neill was utterly routed by the O'Donnells at Letterkenny; and seeking safety in flight, he threw himself on the mercy of his enemies, the MacDonnells.
She didn.t want to remember she was utterly alone in facing him.
Tears began to spill again, and she began to understand how Darian felt, utterly alone and abandoned in the corner of her mind.
He restored discipline in the army, which under Vitellius had become utterly demoralized, and, with the co-operation of the senate, put the government and the finances on a sound footing.
A fine Spanish squadron seeking to escape from Santiago harbour was utterly destroyed by the American blockading force on the 3rd of July; Santiago was invested by land forces, and on the 15th of July the city surrendered.
By the testimony of Barillon, however, it is clear that Russell himself utterly refused to take any part in the intended corruption.
After a careful investigation of the official documents, Cobden became convinced that those were utterly unrighteous proceedings.
At the same time, he was seized by four strong men and rendered utterly powerless.
By the end of October they had perished utterly at the hands of the Seljuks; a heap of whitening bones also remained to testify to the later crusaders, when they passed in the spring of 1097, of the fate of the people's Crusade.
But it was hardly adapted to teach a people utterly without political experience the essential elements of self-government.
But although military operations added to our knowledge of the world, scientific cartography was utterly neglected.
The only land available for the purposes of the bill was the Ager Campanus and the Ager Stellatis, where 5000 citizens were to be settled at once, but as these were utterly insufficient, other lands were to be acquired by purchase.
The prosperity of the city, rudely shaken by the Galatians and the Bithynians, was utterly destroyed in the Mithradatic war.
That such vast excavations should have been made without attracting attention, and that such an immense number of corpses could have been carried to burial in perfect secrecy is utterly impossible.
The heathen gather against Jerusalem and take the city, but do not utterly destroy the inhabitants.
At bottom the man was frivolous, profoundly selfish, unstable, and utterly incapable of consistency or application.
Proclaimed emperor, Heraclius set himself to reorganize the utterly disordered administration.
Lord Macaulay's description of Roxana, Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack as "utterly nauseous and wretched" must be set aside as a freak of criticism.
The result of the contest was never in doubt, however, for the geological evidence, once it had been gathered, was unequivocal; and by about the middle of the century it was pretty generally admitted that the age of the earth must be measured by an utterly different standard from that hitherto in vogue.
His sudden return, far from widening the breaches between the allies, had fused them indissolubly together, and the four powers bound themselves to put 150,000 men apiece under arms and to maintain them in the field until Napoleon had been utterly crushed.
They composed for an exclusive and learned circle, certainly not for the Jew, the German trader of the town, or the utterly illiterate peasant.
The Cyrenaic ideal was, of course, utterly alien to Christianity, and, in general, subsequent thinkers found it an ideal of hopeless pessimism.
Narrowly escaping assassination, at a banquet a few days later, at the hands of his rival, King Sweyn III., he succeeded only with the utmost difficulty in escaping to Jutland, but on the 23rd of October utterly routed Sweyn at the great battle of Grathe Heath, near Viborg, Sweyn perishing in his flight from the field.
In Ioio the Danes returned, to find the kingdom more utterly disorganized than ever.
Samuel Johnson, who was not perhaps the best judge in the world, pronounced his manners to have been " exquisitely elegant "; yet as a courtier he was utterly worsted by Robert Walpole, whose manners were anything but refined, and even by Newcastle.
His inexperience in the routine work of government, the utterly unpractical nature of his colleagues, and the turbulence of the Parisian mob, proved fatal to his chances.
But the Armenian army was utterly defeated near Malatia on the 12th of Iyyar, and at the end of the day Esar-haddon was saluted by his soldiers as king.
It was sacked by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1017-18; about 150o Sultan Sikandar Lodi utterly destroyed all the Hindu shrines, temples and images; and in 1636 Shah Jahan appointed a governor expressly tQ " stamp out idolatry."
The history of Christian Iconium is utterly obscure.
There was a further complication in that each one of these characters had at least two different phonetic values; and there were other intricacies of usage which, had they been foreknown by inquirers in the middle of the 19th century, might well have made the problem of decipherment seem an utterly hopeless one.
The study of these different inscriptions has utterly revolutionized our knowledge of Oriental history.
He was beloved by his Spanish subjects, but utterly without the power of attracting men of other races.
By habit a Catholic, but above all things fond of power, she was determined to prevent the Protestants from getting the upper hand, and almost equally resolved not to allow them to be utterly crushed, in order to use them as a counterpoise to the Guises.
He denounced the papal government as utterly degraded, and urged that the vast property of the Church, which he held to be the chief cause of its degradation, should be secularized and that the clergy should consist of " poor priests," supported only by tithes and alms. They should preach the gospel and encourage the people to seek the truth in the Scriptures themselves, of which a translation into English was completed in 1382.
Napoleon's chance of success was dangerously diminished, if not utterly destroyed, by the incompetence of the two marshals whom in an evil hour he selected for high commands.
Even as it was the resistance of the Maori was utterly worn out at last.
The end of his nominal rule came in the next year, when Wellington utterly overthrew the chief French army, commanded by King Joseph and Marshal Jourdan, at Vittoria (June 21, 1813).
In person he somewhat resembled Napoleon, but utterly lacked his strength and energy.
From this condition, however, it was raised a few years later by the great conqueror and national hero Phra Naret, who after subduing Laos and Cambodia invaded Pegu, which was utterly overthrown in the next century by his successors.
In the usurpation of Cromwell, however, he utterly refused all concurrence, nor would he leave his place in parliament except by force when Cromwell dispersed it on the 10th of April 1653.