perfectly
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Adverb
perfectly (comparative more perfectly, superlative most perfectly)
- With perfection.
- They completed the first series perfectly.
- Wholly, completely, totally.
- Their performance was perfectly fine.
- Skydiving is jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
- 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part II”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 145:
- I was perfectly stunned. I sat and moistened my lips a little, but otherwise made no effort to do anything: my chest was in a pitiful state.
- 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1 – 0 Spain”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- James Milner's angled free-kick was headed on to the post by the tireless [Darren] Bent and [Frank] Lampard the opportunist was perfectly placed to stoop and head in from virtually on the goal-line.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 4:
- The route taken does not have to be a perfectly straight line, just so long as it is linear and is followed consistently for each transect taken.
Usage notes
Some adjectives commonly collocating with perfectly: willing, safe, well, healthy, obvious, understandable.
Translations
with perfection
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wholly, completely
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