1.
[syn: absolutely, perfectly, utterly, dead]
2. in a perfect or faultless way;
- Example: "She performed perfectly on the balance beam"
- Example: "spoke English perfectly"
- Example: "solved the problem perfectly"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Perfectly \Per"fect*ly\, adv.
In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection;
completely; wholly; thoroughly; faultlessly. "Perfectly
divine." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
As many as touched were made perfectly whole. --Matt.
xiv. 36.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
perfectly
adv 1: 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" [syn:
absolutely, perfectly, utterly, dead]
2: in a perfect or faultless way; "She performed perfectly on
the balance beam"; "spoke English perfectly"; "solved the
problem perfectly" [ant: amiss, imperfectly]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "perfectly":
a outrance, absolutely, accurately, admirably, all out, altogether,
beyond all bounds, beyond compare, beyond comparison,
beyond measure, bloody, clean, completely, consummately, correctly,
damned, dead, definitely, downright, entirely, essentially,
exactly, explicitly, exquisitely, extraordinarily, extremely,
faultlessly, flat out, flawlessly, full, fully, fundamentally,
ideally, immaculately, immeasurably, impeccably, in the extreme,
incalculably, incomparably, indefinitely, infallibly, infinitely,
inimitably, irretrievably, irrevocably, jolly, just right, just so,
literally, literatim, most, plain, plumb, positively, precisely,
properly, purely, quite, radically, remarkably, right, rightly,
sheer, sic, so, spotlessly, stark, straight, sublimely, superbly,
superlatively, thoroughly, to the letter, totally, truly,
unambiguously, unconditionally, unequivocally, unmistakably,
unrelievedly, utterly, verbatim, very, wholly, with a vengeance,
wonderfully, word for word