Both Uses of
utter
in
The Time Machine
- So I don't think any of us said very much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next, though its odd potentialities ran, no doubt, in most of our minds: its plausibility, that is, its practical incredibleness, the curious possibilities of anachronism and of utter confusion it suggested.†
Chpt 2
- Presently the walls fell away from me, and I came to a large open space, and striking another match, saw that I had entered a vast arched cavern, which stretched into utter darkness beyond the range of my light.†
Chpt 6 *
Definition:
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(utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)