PERFECTLY
absolutely, perfectly, utterly, dead
(adverb) 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”
perfectly
(adverb) in a perfect or faultless way; “She performed perfectly on the balance beam”; “spoke English perfectly”; “solved the problem perfectly”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
perfectly (comparative more perfectly, superlative most perfectly)
With perfection.
Wholly, completely, totally.
Usage notes
Some adjectives commonly collocating with perfectly: willing, safe, well, healthy, obvious, understandable.
Source: Wiktionary
Per"fect*ly, adv.
Definition: In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly. "Perfectly divine." Milton. As many as touched were made perfectly whole. Matt. xiv. 36.
PERFECT
Per"fect, a. Etym: [OE. parfit, OF. parfit, parfet, parfait, F. parfait, L. perfectus, p.p. of perficere to carry to the end, to perform, finish, perfect; per (see Per-) + facere to make, do. See Fact.]
1. Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct. My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9. Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun. Shak. I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Shak. O most entire perfect sacrifice! Keble. God made thee perfect, not immutable. Milton.
2. Well informed; certain; sure. I am perfect that the Pannonains are now in arms. Shak.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant.
– Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave.
– Perfect number (Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2, 1. See Abundant number, under Abundant. Brande & C.
– Perfect tense (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or state completed.
Syn.
– Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless; blameless; unblemished.
Per"fect, n.
Definition: The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
Per"fect, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perfected; p. pr. & vb. n. Perfecting.] Etym: [L. perfectus, p.p. of perficere. See Perfect, a.]
Definition: To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind. God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us. 1 John iv. 12. Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species. Locke. Perfecting press (Print.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.
Syn.
– To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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