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# perfectly

«perfectly» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **in a perfect way, without any mistakes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (perfectly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Perfectly means in a perfect way, without any mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/#m1)

2) Perfectly means completely or very: «perfectly safe», «perfectly fine». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school life pupils copy a pattern perfectly or know their times tables perfectly. In everyday talk «perfectly» makes a word stronger: «It's perfectly safe», «You know perfectly well». In maths shapes fit together perfectly in tessellations. Phrases: perfectly well, perfectly fine, perfectly safe, perfectly still, fit perfectly.

### examples

- The anger of the LORD shall not return, until He have executed, and till He have performed the purposes of His heart; in the end of days ye shall consider it perfectly. (Prophets JER.23.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/#x1)
- She sang the song perfectly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/#x2)
- The jigsaw pieces fit perfectly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/#x3)
- Stand perfectly still. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/#x4)
- The ice is perfectly safe to skate on — the guard checked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/#x5)
- You know perfectly well what you did. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/#x6)
- I'm perfectly fine, thanks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/#x7)
- The cake turned out perfectly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/#x8)
- But the Weasel was perfectly content. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/#x9)

### note

Adverb from «perfect» + «-ly». In everyday talk «perfectly» often means «completely», not «with no mistakes». Tessellating shapes fit perfectly with no gaps or overlaps.

### In the corpora

- [Imagine walking through long grass and finding a spotted fawn lying perfectly still.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/3/)
- [It's enough to drive one crazy!", calls him "perfectly idiotic", and goes in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/17/)
- [Grammar terms are useful because they let you talk about how sentences work, though nobody needs to know every term perfectly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/16/)
- [At home her mum explained that people sometimes stare and go red when they like someone, and that it is perfectly normal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «perfectly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfectly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.