COMPLETELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does completely mean? 

• COMPLETELY (adverb)
  The adverb COMPLETELY has 2 senses:

1. to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly')

2. so as to be complete; with everything necessary

  Familiarity information: COMPLETELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPLETELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly')

Synonyms:

all; altogether; completely; entirely; right; totally; whole; wholly

Context example:

he fell right into the trap

Pertainym:

complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)

Sense 2

Meaning:

So as to be complete; with everything necessary

Context example:

the apartment was completely furnished

Pertainym:

complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)

 Context examples 

News that comes up is likely to be completely unexpected and joyful.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

One of them, given at a high dose, could eliminate it completely.

(Venom of Wasp, Bee Repurposed as Antibiotic Drug, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

While the team was trying to figure out how to conserve energy and keep our core heated, the engineers came up with a completely new way out of the problem: Jump Jupiter's shadow.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

Scientists thought that Shisa7 played a role in controlling a completely different type of synapse that relies on the neurotransmitter glutamate to excite, rather than quiet, neurons.

(‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves, National Institutes of Health)

The disease, caused by the death of retina cells at the back of the eye, affects 60million people around the world, a 10th of whom have gone completely blind.

(Air Pollution Can Trigger Glaucoma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

All by itself, Greenland could bump sea levels by 7 meters if its ice melted completely.

(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)

200 nanometres is especially significant because it is greater than the thickness of material needed to completely absorb ambient light, making these polymers more suitable as light harvesters for solar cells and photodetectors.

(Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport, Universities of Cambridge)

"You cured me completely, Mr. Eden, and I don't know how to thank you."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Therefore something had occurred between seven-thirty and nine o’clock which had completely altered her feelings towards him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was completely covered with such inscriptions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)