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 →

2) Used as a strong «yes» when you agree: «Absolutely!» tree →

3) With «not» or «nothing», a strong «no»: absolutely not, absolutely nothing. tree →

4) (informal) Used to make a feeling stronger: absolutely starving. tree →

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 →
• You are absolutely right. tree →
• I'm absolutely starving. tree →
• Absolutely not, you can't go out in this storm. tree →
• There was absolutely nothing left in the fridge. tree →
• The sunset was absolutely beautiful. tree →
• Make absolutely sure the tap is off. tree →
• But since you ask me, I must confess that it lacks three things to make it absolutely perfect." tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «absolutely» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.