completely

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Middle English compleet

English complete

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English completely

From complete + -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpliːtli/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: com‧plete‧ly

Adverb

completely (comparative more completely, superlative most completely)

2. In a complete manner; thoroughly.

   Please completely fill in the box for your answer, using a number “2” pencil.

   I will have completely finished my degree by next July, when my thesis has been properly edited.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 70, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded.

   • 1899 April 22, Kate Chopin, chapter XIX, in The Awakening, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Herbert S. Stone & Co., →OCLC:

     She completely abandoned her Tuesdays at home, and did not return the visits of those who had called upon her.

   • 1969, E.R. Zumwalt, Jr., Silver Star Citation - John Kerry:

     Lieutenant (junior grade) KERRY immediately maneuvered his craft through several strafing runs which completely silenced the enemy.

   • 2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN‎^[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 14 May 2026:

     “Temu is gone! What I saw today completely convinced me!” the user wrote. “Local sellers, despite obviously buying some items in advance in a bulk, don’t have all these items I was interested in.”

4. To the fullest extent or degree; totally.

   He is completely mad.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.

   • 1968 June 8, Edward M. Kennedy, Tribute to Senator Robert F. Kennedy:

     Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control.

   • 1975, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students, Lesson 75: The light has come,

     Keep a completely open mind, washed of all past ideas and clean of every concept you have made.

Synonyms

• (in a complete manner): fully, totally, utterly
• (to the fullest degree): fully, totally, utterly
• See also Thesaurus:completely

Derived terms

• completely and utterly
• completely metrizable

Translations

in a complete manner — see also entirely,‎ totally

• Albanian: krejtësisht (sq)
• Arabic: تَمَامًا (tamāman)
• Armenian: ամբողջովին (hy) (amboġǰovin)
• Asturian: completamente, dafechu
• Bulgarian: напълно (bg) (napălno), съвсем (bg) (săvsem)
• Catalan: completament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 完全 (jyun⁴ cyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 完全 (zh) (wánquán), 徹底 / 彻底 (zh) (chèdǐ), 十分 (zh) (shífēn), 全部地 (quánbùde)

• Czech: zcela (cs), úplně (cs)
• Dagbani: chaɣibi
• Dutch: compleet (nl), volledig (nl), volkomen (nl)
• Esperanto: komplete
• Estonian: täielikult, täiesti (et)
• Finnish: täysin (fi), kokonaan (fi), tyystin (fi), tyyten, tykkänään (fi)
• French: complètement (fr)
• Galician: completamente (gl)
• Georgian: მთლიანად (mtlianad), სრულად (srulad)
• German: vollständig (de), völlig (de), ganz (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐍉 (allandjō)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: πάντως (pántōs), παντελῶς (pantelôs), ὅλως (hólōs), τελείως (teleíōs)

• Hebrew: לגמרי (he) (le'gamre'), לחלוטין (lakhalutín)
• Hindi: बिलकुल (hi) (bilkul), एकदम (ekdam)
• Hungarian: teljesen (hu)
• Ido: komplete (io)
• Italian: completamente (it), interamente (it), del tutto, totalmente (it), pienamente (it)
• Japanese: 全く (ja) (まったく, mattaku), 完全に (かんぜんに, kanzen ni), 完璧に (かんぺきに, kampeki ni), すっかり (ja) (sukkari)
• Khmer: ស្រុង (km) (srong)
• Korean: 완전히 (ko) (wanjeonhi)
• Krio: kpatakpata
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بە تەواوی (be tewawî), بە یەکجاری (be yekcarî)

• Latin: admodum, plēnē
• Latvian: pilnīgi, pilnām
• Mongolian: бүрмөсөн (mn) (bürmösön)
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: thǖpēm

• Norman: compliètement (Jersey)
• Occitan: completament
• Pashto: بېخي (ps) (bexi)
• Plautdietsch: gauns
• Polish: całkowicie (pl), w całości, bezdennie (when collocating with "głupi" (stupid)), bezwzględnie (pl)
• Portuguese: completamente (pt), totalmente (pt)
• Romanian: complet (ro), completamente (ro)
• Russian: соверше́нно (ru) (soveršénno), целико́м (ru) (celikóm), по́лностью (ru) (pólnostʹju), совсе́м (ru) (sovsém)
• Sanskrit: केवल (sa) (kevala)
• Scottish Gaelic: gu lèir
• Sicilian: dû propia
• Slovene: popôlnoma
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: ceło

• Spanish: completamente (es), por completo (es), del todo (es), de todo punto, en toda la línea, con armas y bagajes
• Swedish: fullständigt (sv)
• Tocharian B: attsaik
• Turkish: tamamen (tr)
• Ukrainian: по́вністю (póvnistju), цілко́м (uk) (cilkóm), зо́всім (zóvsim)
• Uzbek: butunlay (uz)
• Vietnamese: hoàn toàn (vi)
• Volapük: löliko (vo)
• Zazaki: temamen
• Zealandic: glad

to the fullest extent or degree — see also totally

• Arabic: تَمَامًا (tamāman), بِالْكَامِلِ (bi-l-kāmili)

  Egyptian Arabic: خالص (ḵāliṣ)

  Iraqi Arabic: تماماً (tamāman), فد نوب (fad nōb), فد مرة (fad marra)

• Armenian: կատարելապես (hy) (katarelapes), լրիվ (hy) (lriv)
• Azerbaijani: tam şəkildə, tamamilə, bütünlüklə, tam sürətdə
• Belarusian: зусім (zusim), цалкам (calkam), ушчэнт (uščent)
• Catalan: totalment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十分 (zh) (shífēn), ...極了 / ...极了 (jí le), ...死了 (sǐ le)

• Czech: do mrtě (cs) (colloquial, idiomatic)
• Dutch: helemaal (nl)
• Esperanto: tute (eo), absolute
• Finnish: täysin (fi), täydellisen (fi)
• French: complètement (fr)
• German: vollumfänglich (de), ganz (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐍉 (allandjō)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἄρδην (árdēn), πάγχυ (pánkhu)

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can:
• Hungarian: egészen (hu), teljesen (hu)
• Icelandic: aldeilis (is)
• Ingrian: aivan, aivon
• Italian: completamente (it), interamente (it), del tutto, totalmente (it), pienamente (it)
• Japanese: 全く (ja) (まったく, mattaku), まるっきり (ja) (marukkiri)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: funditus
• Latvian: pilnīgi, pilnām
• Norman: compliètement (Jersey)
• Old Norse: ǫllungis
• Pashto: بېخي (ps) (bexi)
• Plautdietsch: gauns
• Polish: zupełnie (pl), totalnie (pl), całkowicie (pl), bez reszty (pl), do cna (pl), do spodu, do szczętu (pl), doszczętnie (pl), kompletnie (pl), na sto procent (pl)
• Portuguese: completamente (pt), totalmente (pt)
• Romanian: complet (ro), total (ro)
• Russian: соверше́нно (ru) (soveršénno), совсе́м (ru) (sovsém)
• Scottish Gaelic: dearg, gu lèir
• Slovene: popôlnoma
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: ceło

• Spanish: completamente (es), por completo (es) rematadamente, de todo punto, plenamente (es), rotundamente (es), en toda la línea
• Swedish: fullständigt (sv)
• Ukrainian: зо́всім (zóvsim)
• Vietnamese: quá (vi), hẳn (vi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} jäägitult
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} बिलकुल (hi) (bilkul)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} algerlega
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} omnīnō
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} compliètement (Jersey)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} hoàn toàn (vi)