adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
absolutely/utterly etc disgraceful
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Their behaviour was absolutely disgraceful.
absolutely/utterly ridiculous
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You look absolutely ridiculous in that short skirt.
absolutely/utterly/completely meaningless
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a statistic that is absolutely meaningless
deeply/utterly/wholly etc repugnant
totally/completely/utterly exhausted
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Looking after a baby on my own left me feeling totally exhausted.
utterly/unequivocally condemn sth/sb (= very definitely and with no doubts )
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We utterly condemn any acts of violence.
wholly/utterly/totally etc convincing
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Courtenay played the role in an utterly convincing way.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dependent
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They can no longer hunt properly and so are utterly dependent on us.
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He is utterly dependent on the corporation for both his economic and emotional security.
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Nancy Kwan played a mindless tart, utterly dependent upon men.
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As long as political parties are utterly dependent on monied donors, ordinary folks are unlikely to get in the gates.
different
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Some biochemists have built up quite elaborate blueprints for forms of life utterly different from our own.
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Such vanished cultures operated under belief systems so utterly different from ours that such a proposition is absurd.
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So there you have them, two utterly different Hillaries.
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I looked at the bleak, eerie landscape nearing us, so utterly different from the comfortable London world of human construction.
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This is intolerable because the two societies and cultures are utterly different .
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Something will have changed, become utterly different in a way that will gnaw at you, while it simultaneously intrigues you.
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I can extrapolate this deduction to other vertebrates but an arthropod has different reactions and an utterly different nervous system.
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Another utterly different approach to animal communication involves asking what the observed activities might be for.
impossible
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But actually neither of these two occurrences would be classified by science as utterly impossible .
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No, that was utterly impossible .
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Brasshats do, and, seemingly, leaders of nations find it utterly impossible .
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I personally was never interested in raising a family, but it would be utterly impossible in such a milieu.
ridiculous
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How utterly ridiculous ! she chided herself sharply.
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It was entirely against her will and utterly ridiculous , but she could not seem to stop doing it.
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He looked utterly ridiculous , lounging untidily back against the door.
unable
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He lay in a dreamlike daze, utterly unable to distinguish between real and false memories.
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And one I had thus far been utterly unable to decode.
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I am utterly unable to guess.
■ VERB
become
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She was becoming utterly dreamy in this land.
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Something will have changed, become utterly different in a way that will gnaw at you, while it simultaneously intrigues you.
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It will be possible to look back and observe that those in love become utterly self-destructive.
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Beneath me June's body froze, becoming utterly immobile, lifeless.
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Like a chameleon, it moved out of the aisle between machines, then stopped, and became utterly motionless.
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You're becoming utterly spoiled by that wretched woman.
change
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It was certainly enough to change utterly Burton's fortunes on the stage.
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But by the mid-1980s the computer had changed utterly .
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Those days of walking and talking utterly changed the way I viewed the world.
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I knew that the whole world had changed utterly .
destroy
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A massive Roman army besieged Jerusalem, utterly destroying the Temple and razing the city to the ground.
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It was utterly destroyed on the orders of Cardinal Mazarin in 1659.
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If women committed crime, they were destroyed utterly .
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Thebes and Corinth wanted Athens to be utterly destroyed sooner than see her turned into a Spartan puppet.
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This, it was claimed, had utterly destroyed Brooke's reputation.
fail
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Many a case can be cited where business strategies of this kind have utterly failed .
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Not surprisingly, the bank has utterly failed in its mission to help the developing world.
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Against the implacable opposition of its lord, Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554.
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For instance, population control, which neither involved women nor took their point of view into consideration, had failed utterly .
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The attack against Beaumont-Hamel proved abortive, and a thrust made by the Third Army against Gommecourt failed utterly .
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There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives.
feel
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She expected to feel utterly changed.
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Ultimately. when these women fail to lose weight, they feel utterly disempowered.
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I feel utterly sick with myself.
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Upstairs, feeling utterly suicidal, Perdita looked round her tiny bare room.
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She felt utterly hemmed in by the panelled walls adorned with religious pictures, crucifixes, statues and ornate candlesticks.
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Faced by Constance's distress she felt utterly at sea and didn't know how to help her.
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He felt utterly friendless and Max Aitken arranged a luncheon for him which I attended.
look
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She looks utterly fabulous and bizarrely ageless, a perfect cross between a living Sindy doll and the girl next door.
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He could look utterly devastating when he wanted to.
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He looked utterly ridiculous, lounging untidily back against the door.
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She looked utterly spent; there was nothing to be gained by pressing her further.
seem
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Prost seemed utterly at ease with the pressure being put on him.
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Inside, the building seemed utterly cavernous.
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It seemed utterly incongruous that there were cars parked outside on the wide circular drive - carriages would have looked more appropriate.
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Today the cost seems utterly prohibitive, and Washington and Oregon would probably resist the engineers with tanks.
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Suddenly, it seemed utterly unbelievable, a mere figment of her dreamlike state.
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These sentences seemed utterly worthless to him.
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They were strict, serene, and at times seemed utterly unknowable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her comments about men are utterly ridiculous.
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We utterly reject the philosophy of compulsory wage control.
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Whether you like her or not is utterly irrelevant.
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Without their help it would have been utterly impossible to arrange the conference.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As for kabbalah, I found it utterly incomprehensible.
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At dinner he was utterly silent and tried to leave as soon as he had eaten sufficient but before the table was cleared.
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It is a place that is uncomfortable yet utterly familiar.
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Nevertheless, to conceive of parents as utterly static in the child's psychological life is likely to distort the picture grossly.
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Not surprisingly, the bank has utterly failed in its mission to help the developing world.
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She is utterly fearless and sure of herself, small in stature but large in moxie.