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absolutely

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ab·so·lute·ly  (bs-ltl, bs-ltl)
adv.
1. Definitely and completely; unquestionably.
2. Grammar
a. In a manner that does not take an object.
b. In an absolute relationship.
Usage Note: For some time, absolutely has been used informally as an intensive, as in an absolutely magnificent painting. In an earlier survey, a majority of the Usage Panel disapproved of this usage in formal writing.

absolutely
Adverb
completely or perfectly
interj
yes indeed, certainly
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.absolutelyabsolutely - completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
2.absolutelyabsolutely - totally and definitely; without question; "we are absolutely opposed to the idea"; "he forced himself to lie absolutely still"; "iron is absolutely necessary"

absolutely
adverb 1. completely, totally, perfectly, quite, fully, entirely, purely, altogether, thoroughly, wholly, utterly, consummately, every inch, to the hilt, a hundred per cent, one hundred per cent, unmitigatedly, lock, stock and barrel << OPPOSITE somewhat
Translations
Spanish absolutely [æbsəˈluːtlɪ] advtotalmente;
oh yes, absolutely! → ¡claro or por supuesto que sí!

French absolutely [æbsəˈluːtlɪ] absolute advabsolument
German absolutely [æbsəˈluːtlɪ] absolute advabsolut;
(agree) → vollkommen;
absolutely! → genau!

Italian absolutely [æbsəˈluːtlɪ] advassolutamente

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I have always had a great love for the absolutely unreal, the purely fanciful in all the arts, as well as of the absolutely real; I like the one on a far lower plane than the other, but it delights me, as a pantomime at a theatre does, or a comic opera, which has its being wholly outside the realm of the probabilities.
Without absolutely declining to pay the money, the two offices
The supreme touch of the white rabbit pulling on his white gloves as he hastens is again absolutely the child's vision, but the white rabbit as guide and introducer of Alice's adventures belongs to mature grown insight.
 
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