3 meanings, 9 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
1 —6 uses as in:
utter stupidity
Definition
complete or total (used as an intensifier—typically when stressing how bad something is)
- He was utterly miserable, and perhaps (her shining eyes accused him), perhaps it was his own fault.p. 86.8
utterly = completely
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- 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
- 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
- His face was pale, his expression utterly dejected.p. 103.9
- Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep.p. 176.7
- 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
utterly = completely
utterly = completely
utterly = completely
utterly = completely
utterly = completely
There are no more uses of "utter" flagged with this meaning in Brave New World.
Typical Usage
(best examples)
2 —1 use as in:
utter a complaint
Definition
say with the voice
- 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
uttered = said aloud
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
There are no more uses of "utter" flagged with this meaning in Brave New World.
Typical Usage
(best examples)
3 —2 uses as in:
utter a sound
Definition
make a sound with the voice
- 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
uttered = made a sound with the voice
- 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
uttered = made a sound with the voice
There are no more uses of "utter" flagged with this meaning in Brave New World.
Typical Usage
(best examples)