Heavily vs Utterly - What's the difference?
heavily | utterly |
In a heavy manner.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= With a great weight.
To a considerable degree, to a great extent.
*
*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
In a manner designed for heavy duty.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 So as to be thick or heavy.
In a laboured manner.
completely, entirely, to the fullest extent
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=November 10
, author=Jeremy Wilson
, title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report
, work=Telegraph
As adverbs the difference between heavily and utterly
is that heavily is in a heavy manner while utterly is completely, entirely, to the fullest extent.heavily
English
Adverb
(en adverb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}
utterly
English
Adverb
(-)- Well now we are utterly lost.
- I have failed you utterly .
citation, page= , passage=An utterly' emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had ' utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight. }}
