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# absolutely

«absolutely» in Mova's school dictionary: **Completely, totally: absolutely right** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (absolutely)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Completely, totally: absolutely right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#m1)

2) Used as a strong «yes» when you agree: «Absolutely!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#m2)

3) With «not» or «nothing», a strong «no»: absolutely not, absolutely nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#m3)

4) (informal) Used to make a feeling stronger: absolutely starving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Very common in talk to agree warmly or to stress a word; in maths problems «absolutely certain» means probability 1.

### examples

- Are you coming? — Absolutely! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#x1)
- You are absolutely right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#x2)
- I'm absolutely starving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#x3)
- Absolutely not, you can't go out in this storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#x4)
- There was absolutely nothing left in the fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#x5)
- The sunset was absolutely beautiful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#x6)
- Make absolutely sure the tap is off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#x7)
- But since you ask me, I must confess that it lacks three things to make it absolutely perfect." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absolutely/#x8)

### note

Spelling: absolute + ly, keep the e (absolutely). Stress is on «lute»: ab-so-LUTE-ly. Overused in speech; in writing choose a precise word.

### In the corpora

- [Two nights after Mortal Kombat at Theo's, Leo woke at 3 a.m. absolutely certain a skeleton was under his bed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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