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English

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Etymology 1

Old English ūtera, comparative of ūt (“out”); compare outer.

Adjective

utter (not comparable)

  1. absolute, unconditional
    This is utter nonsense!
Derived terms
Translations
absolute

Etymology 2

Partly from out (adverb/verb), partly from Middle Dutch uteren.

Verb

to utter (third-person singular simple present utters, present participle uttering, simple past and past participle uttered)

  1. (transitive) To say
    Don't you utter another word!
  2. (transitive) To use the voice
    Sally uttered a sigh of relief.
  3. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved
    Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness.
  4. (transitive) To make (a noise)
    Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.
  5. (transitive) To put counterfeit money etc. into circulation
Derived terms
Translations
say
use the voice
  • Danish: udstøde da(da)
  • Dutch: uiten nl(nl)
  • Finnish: päästää fi(fi)
  • German: ausstoßen
make speech sounds
  • Polish: mamrotać pl(pl)
  • Portuguese: pronunciar pt(pt), balbuciar pt(pt)
  • Slovene: izgovoriti sl(sl)
make a noise
  • Portuguese: emitir pt(pt)
  • Slovene: oglasiti se sl(sl)
  • Swedish: ge till
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  • French : proférer, produire/émettre (a sound)
  • Ido : prononcar
  • Slovak : vysloviť, prehovoriť (1); zastonať (2), ozvať sa (3), vydať zvuk (4)

Etymology 3

Old English ūtor, comparative of ūt (“out”).

Adverb

utter (comparative more utter, superlative most utter)

  1. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VI:
      So whan he com nyghe to hir, she bade hym ryde uttir – ‘for thou smellyst all of the kychyn.’

Swedish

Noun

Inflection for utter Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Base form utter uttern uttrar uttrarna
Possessive form utters utterns uttrars uttrarnas

utter

  1. otter; a mammal of the family Mustelidae

 

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