complete and utter

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English

Adjective

complete and utter (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Used to intensify; absolute; total.
    That movie was complete and utter trash. Do not watch it!
    • 1803, Great Britain. Parliament, William Cobbett, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 710:
      The office had been established in connection with the Act passed by Lord Cairns, which it was well known was a complete and utter failure.
    • 1896, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad, volume 7, page 350:
      I only knew that I had given her my confidence, that complete and utter confidence which neither wisdom nor power alone, can command.
    • 2017, Michael Wise, On the Toss of a Coin, page 13:
      Then a period of complete and utter nothingness - not a thought, not a vision, not a sound, nothing.