completely

1. 1.

   to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')

   “he was wholly convinced”

   “entirely satisfied with the meal”

   “it was completely different from what we expected”

   “was completely at fault”

   “a totally new situation”

   “the directions were all wrong”

   “it was not altogether her fault”

   “an altogether new approach”

   “a whole new idea”

   “she felt right at home”

   “he fell right into the trap”

   Synonymswhollyentirelytotallyallaltogetherwholeright
2. 2.

   so as to be complete; with everything necessary

   “he had filled out the form completely”

   “the apartment was completely furnished”

Questions about completely

What does completely mean?

completely means "to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in completely?

completely has 3 syllables: com-plete-ly. The stress falls on "plete". In IPA it is /kəmˈplitli/.

What is another word for completely?

Close synonyms include wholly, entirely, totally, all, altogether. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is completely a common word?

completely is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.