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ALL meanings of completely

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  • adjective completely having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings. 1
  • adjective completely finished; ended; concluded: a complete orbit. 1
  • adjective completely having all the required or customary characteristics, skills, or the like; consummate; perfect in kind or quality: a complete scholar. 1
  • adjective completely thorough; entire; total; undivided, uncompromised, or unmodified: a complete victory; a complete mess. 1
  • noun completely Totally; utterly. 1
  • adjective completely Grammar. having all modifying or complementary elements included: The complete subject of “The dappled pony gazed over the fence” is “The dappled pony.”. Compare simple (def 20). 1
  • adjective completely Also, completed. Football. (of a forward pass) caught by a receiver. 1
  • adjective completely Logic. (of a set of axioms) such that every true proposition able to be formulated in terms of the basic ideas of a given system is deducible from the set. Compare incomplete (def 4b). 1
  • adjective completely Engineering. noting a determinate truss having the least number of members required to connect the panel points so as to form a system of triangles. Compare incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c). 1
  • adjective completely (of persons) accomplished; skilled; expert. 1
  • adjective completely Mathematics. of or relating to an algebraic system, as a field with an order relation defined on it, in which every set of elements of the system has a least upper bound. of or relating to a set in which every fundamental sequence converges to an element of the set. Compare fundamental sequence. (of a lattice) having the property that every subset has a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound. 1
  • verb with object completely to make whole or entire: I need three more words to complete the puzzle. 1
  • verb with object completely to make perfect: His parting look of impotent rage completed my revenge. 1
  • verb with object completely to bring to an end; finish: Has he completed his new novel yet? 1
  • verb with object completely to consummate. 1
  • verb with object completely Football. to execute (a forward pass) successfully: He completed 17 passes in 33 attempts. 1
  • noun completely Occasionally there are objections to modifying complete with qualifiers like almost, more, most, nearly, and quite, because they suggest that complete is relative rather than absolute:  an almost complete record; a more complete proposal; the most complete list available.  However, such uses are fully standard and occur regularly in all varieties of spoken and written English. See also perfect, unique.   1
  • adverb completely totally 1
  • adverb completely utterly 1
  • adverb completely (manner) In a complete manner; fully; totally; utterly. 0
  • adverb completely (degree) To the fullest extent or degree; totally. 0
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