All 9 Uses of
utter
in
Brave New World
- The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.
p. 40..6 (definition 1)utterly = completely
- Men who never had to shout at an Epsilon to get an order obeyed; men who took their position for granted; men who moved through the caste system as a fish through water–so utterly at home as to be unaware either of themselves or of the beneficent and comfortable element in which they had their being.
p. 65..6 (definition 1)
- He was utterly miserable, and perhaps (her shining eyes accused him), perhaps it was his own fault.
p. 86..8 (definition 1) *
- After a few seconds Lenina's eyes flinched away; she uttered a nervous little laugh, tried to think of something to say and couldn't.
p. 92..4 (definition 2) *uttered = made a sound with the voice
- His face was pale, his expression utterly dejected.
p. 103..9 (definition 1)utterly = completely
- With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks and the recapitulated aeons to where, in the Decanting Room, the newly-unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement.
p. 147..0 (definition 2)uttered = made a sound with the voice
- Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep.
p. 176..7 (definition 1)utterly = completely
- It might give them the most disastrous ideas about the subject, might upset them into reacting in the entirely wrong, the utterly anti-social way.
p. 206..9 (definition 1)
- Five words he uttered and no more-five words, the same as those he had said to Bernard about the Arch-Community-Songster of Canterbury.
p. 250..3 (definition 2)uttered = said aloudeditor's notes: This was followed by five words in Zuni which Huxley didn't intend for the reader to understand. This editor was unable to find a reliable translation by looking on the Internet, but the words are clearly intended to be insulting.
Definitions:
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(1) (utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)
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(2) (utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice