Utter

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English

Adjective

Utter (not comparable)

  1. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
  2. (obsolete) Outward.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXIII:
      Wo be to you scrybes and pharises ypocrites, for ye make clene the utter side off the cuppe, and off the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.
  3. Absolute, unconditional, total.
    This is utter nonsense!

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Verb

Utter (third-person singular simple present Utters, present participle Uttering, simple past and past participle Uttered)

  1. (transitive) To say
    Don't you utter another word!
  2. (transitive) To use the voice
    Sally uttered a sigh of relief.
    The dog uttered a growling bark.
  3. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved
    Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness.
  4. (transitive) To make (a noise)
    Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.
  5. (transitive) To put counterfeit money etc. into circulation

Derived terms

Adverb

Utter (comparative more Utter, superlative most Utter)

  1. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VI:
      So whan he com nyghe to hir, she bade hym ryde uttir – ‘for thou smellyst all of the kychyn.’

Adverbs for Utter

drolly; involuntarily; tremulously; decisively; articulately; prophetically; disparagingly; foolishly; coaxingly; mechanically; inarticulately; impassionately; lyrically; incisively; exquisitely; indiscriminately; voluntarily; specifically; delicately; deliberately.

Thesaurus

absolute, admitting no exception, air, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, arrant, articulate, bestrew, born, break it to, break the news, breathe, broad-based, broadcast, categorical, chime, chorus, circulate, circumfuse, classical, clean, clear, coin, come out with, communicate, complete, comprehensive, conclusive, confide, confide to, congenital, consummate, convey, counterfeit, crass, deal out, decided, decisive, deep-dyed, definite, definitive, deliver, demonetize, determinate, devaluate, devalue, diffract, diffuse, disclose, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, divulgate, divulge, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, emit, entire, enunciate, evulgate, exhaustive, explicit, express, fan out, final, fixed, flagrant, flat, flat-out, fling off, forge, formulate, full, give, give expression, give out, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give vent to, give voice, glaring, global, gross, impart, implicit, inappealable, indisputable, intact, integral, intensive, intolerable, issue, let get around, let in on, let out, lip, make known, mint, omnibus, omnipresent, out with, out-and-out, outright, overscatter, oversow, overspread, peremptory, perfect, pervasive, phonate, phrase, plain, plumb, positive, pour forth, precious, present, profound, pronounce, pronounced, propagate, proper, publish, pure, put forth, put in words, radiate, radical, raise, rank, regular, reissue, remonetize, retail, revalue, reveal, round, say, scatter, set forth, shattering, sheer, shocking, shove the queer, sound, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spread, spread out, stark, stark-staring, straight, straight-out, strew, superlative, surpassing, sweeping, tell, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, throw off, total, ubiquitous, unbearable, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, unconscionable, undeniable, undoubting, unequivocal, unhampered, unhesitating, universal, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestioning, unrelieved, unreserved, unrestricted, unspoiled, unwaivable, vent, ventilate, verbalize, veritable, vocalize, voice, whisper, whole, wholesale, without exception, without reserve, word

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Old English ūtera, comparative of ūt (“out”); compare outer.

Etymology 2

Partly from out (adverb/verb), partly from Middle Dutch uteren.

Etymology 3

Old English ūtor, comparative of ūt (“out”).

Translations

Adjective

absolute

Verb

say
use the voice
make speech sounds
make a noise
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Swedish

Noun

Utter c.

  1. otter; a mammal of the family Mustelidae

Declension

Declension of Utter
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Utter uttern uttrar uttrarna
genitive Utters utterns uttrars uttrarnas
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