Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Utter"

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Utter has 2 meanings,

To say something
“She uttered his name”

And complete/ absolute
“She was in utter amazement”

A: adjective: utter

complete; absolute.

"Charles stared at her in utter amazement"

verb: utter; 3rd person present: utters; past tense: uttered; past participle: uttered; gerund or present participle: uttering

1.

make (a sound) with one's voice.

"he uttered an exasperated snort"

synonyms:emit, let out, give, produce

"he uttered an exasperated snort"

say (something) aloud.

"they are busily scribbling down every word she utters"

I hope this helps.

A: Total, Komplett, Absolut
Utter nonsense = Totaler Quatsch
Utterly wrong = Komplett Falsch

A: 1. total, completo(a)

it's utter madness - es una auténtica locura

the film is utter rubbish - la película es una verdadera porquería

A: Hence, tool is utterly safe to use. [=entirely/totally/completely]

The movie was utter garbage.
That argument is utter nonsense.
The wedding was a complete and utter [=absolute, total] disaster.

A: Utter means complete
1) The class was told to do their test in utter silence.
2) my dog is an utter nuisance when she barks
3) “That is utterly ridiculous!”
4) “You are an utter coward!”

A: It was utterly hilarious when you fell into the pool.

A: That was an utter shambles.

You are utterly rubbish at football.

A: She was utterly defeated.

He will be thrown into utter despair when he finds out that his family was murdered.

Claire juggled four chainsaws, and Charles stared at her in utter amazement.

"Mike must be utterly stupid!" she thought. "What idiot thinks that two plus two equals five‽"

A:

Utter is a literary, uncommon way of saying Say.

People don't really use the word utter in ordinary conversation, they say Say

A: In a negative phrase like "it was a complete/absolute/utter disaster', they mean the same, they are all very emphatic, all slightly formal and all fairly common. A slightly more common and less formal option would be 'total'.

'complete' can be either positive or negative (a complete success, a complete failure); 'absolute' is usually negative (an absolute fiasco), 'utter' is always negative (Donald Trump is an utter moron).

'complete' can be an adjective by itself, eg. 'this project is complete'. The others are always modifying something - an absolute failure, an utter catastrophe, etc.

A: Good question. It’s a little hard to explain. They mean the same thing but utter is more sophisticated or stylish. It also can be used to say the person or object didn’t make a sound.
“When his mother asked about his worries, the child covered his face with his hands and did not utter a word/sound.”

A: To utter is to say something, or to mutter.
For a long time he could not utter a word.


But can also have another meaning like "a great amount".
They brought us to utter ruin!

A: They all have a meaning of complete and total that is synonymous.
Sheer and absolute have other meanings too.

Sheer and absolute can be nouns where utter is not.
Sheer - a piece of light and see-through fabric. (also an adjective that means light and see-through) "Hang sheers over the windows so that light will still come in."
Absolute - a universal principle (also an adjective with this meaning of being something that exists outside of any comparison with others) "Laws vary between countries but the evil of murder is a moral absolute."

Sheer can also mean perpendicular, "A sheer wall of rock blocked our way."

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A: I hope that's clear! The "tt" part sounds a little like a "d"in an American accent.

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