adv
Meaning 1
With perfection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- They completed the first series perfectly.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
perfectly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː.fɪk(t).li/
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General-American: /ˈpɝ.fɪk(t).li/
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/ˈpɑɹ.fɪk(t).lɪ/ Appalachians, obsolete
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Australian: /ˈpɜː.fɪk(t).li/
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New-Zealand: /ˈpøː.fək(t).li/
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CMU ARPABET: P ER1 F AH0 K T L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: P ER1 F AH0 K L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
Wholly, completely, totally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Their performance was perfectly fine.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: absolutely, utterly, dead
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 4
in a perfect or faultless way
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She performed perfectly on the balance beam
- spoke English perfectly
- solved the problem perfectly
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: imperfectly
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English perfect Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English perfectly From perfect + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بِإِتْقَان (biʔitqān) — with perfection
- Arabic: تَمَامًا (tamāman) — with perfection
- Belarusian: выда́тна (vydátna) — with perfection
- Belarusian: бездако́рна (bjezdakórna) — with perfection
- Bulgarian: отли́чно (otlíčno) — with perfection
- Catalan: perfectament — with perfection
- Czech: dokonale — with perfection
- Dutch: perfect — with perfection
- Esperanto: perfekte — with perfection
- Finnish: täydellisesti — with perfection
- French: parfaitement — with perfection
- Galician: perfectamente — with perfection
- German: perfekt — with perfection
- German: einwandfrei — with perfection
- Greek: τέλεια (téleia) — with perfection
- Ancient Greek: εἰς ὄνυχα (eis ónukha) — with perfection
- Hungarian: tökéletesen — with perfection
- Italian: perfettamente — with perfection
- Italian: propriamente — with perfection
- Latin: perfectē — with perfection
- Latin: ad unguem — with perfection
- Norwegian: perfekt — with perfection
- Polish: doskonale — with perfection
- Portuguese: perfeitamente — with perfection
- Russian: отли́чно (otlíčno) — with perfection
- Russian: прекра́сно (prekrásno) — with perfection
- Russian: безупре́чно (bezupréčno) — with perfection
- Russian: в соверше́нстве (v soveršénstve) — with perfection
- Russian: безукори́зненно (bezukoríznenno) — with perfection
- Slovak: dokonale — with perfection
- Spanish: perfectamente — with perfection
- Swedish: perfekt — with perfection
- Ukrainian: бездога́нно (bezdohánno) — with perfection
- Ukrainian: відмі́нно (vidmínno) — with perfection
- Bulgarian: съвърше́но (sǎvǎršéno) — wholly, completely
- Finnish: täysin — wholly, completely
- Finnish: täydellisen — wholly, completely
- Finnish: kaikin puolin — wholly, completely
- German: vollkommen — wholly, completely
- German: durchaus — wholly, completely
- Italian: totalmente — wholly, completely
- Portuguese: perfeitamente — wholly, completely
- Russian: соверше́нно (soveršénno) — wholly, completely
- Russian: по́лностью (pólnostʹju) — wholly, completely
- Russian: целико́м (celikóm) — wholly, completely
- Russian: абсолю́тно (absoljútno) — wholly, completely
- Spanish: perfectamente — wholly, completely
- Ukrainian: цілко́м (cilkóm) — wholly, completely
- Ukrainian: цілкови́то (cilkovýto) — wholly, completely
- Ukrainian: абсолю́тно (absoljútno) — wholly, completely
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