[
US
/ˈətɝ/
]
[ UK /ˈʌtɐ/ ]
[ UK /ˈʌtɐ/ ]
VERB
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express in speech
This depressed patient does not verbalize
She talks a lot of nonsense -
put into circulation
utter counterfeit currency -
express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
She let out a big heavy sigh
He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand -
articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
He uttered a curse
She expressed her anger
ADJECTIVE
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without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
a thoroughgoing villain
utter nonsense
a perfect idiot
what a sodding mess
pure folly
the unadulterated truth
stark staring mad
a consummate fool
gross negligence
an arrant fool
a complete coward
a double-dyed villain
a thorough nuisance -
complete and absolute
blank stupidity
utter seriousness
How To Use utter In A Sentence
- I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
- Butterflies enjoy the daisy family too, and there are a few that they especially love. Times, Sunday Times
- Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit. 2009 March | Baking Bites
- Oh - and I want a food mixer of some sort, because creaming butter and sugar by hand is not a lot of fun.
- (Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia. Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
- I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others. What to Do?
- Liz smiles professionally and holds Larry, who wheezes and splutters, enduring his hardship with a stoicism that looks exhausting.
- We failed utterly to convince them.
- The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
- Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen