utter

[Ut·ter]

The adjective utter is often used as an intensifier to mean "total" often with negative connotations (like "utter failure"). As a verb, the word has a totally unrelated meaning: to speak or to articulate a sound.

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Outer.

Verb
articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse"

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express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"

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express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"

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put into circulation; "utter counterfeit currency"

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Outer.

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Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer.

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Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter ruin; utter darkness.

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Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an utter refusal or denial.

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To put forth or out; to reach out.

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To dispose of in trade; to sell or vend.

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hence, to put in circulation, as money; to put off, as currency; to cause to pass in trade; -- often used, specifically, of the issue of counterfeit notes or coins, forged or fraudulent documents, and the like; as, to utter coin or bank notes.

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To give public expression to; to disclose; to publish; to speak; to pronounce.

Utter

Ut"ter , a. [OE. utter, originally the same word as outer. See Out, and cf. Outer, Utmost.] 1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. [Obs.] "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman.

As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.

2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer. [Obs.]

Through utter and through middle darkness borne.

The very utter part pf Saint Adelmes point is five miles from Sandwich.

3. Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter ruin; utter darkness.

They . . . are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind.

4. Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an utter refusal or denial. Clarendon. Utter bar (Law), the whole body of junior barristers. See Outer bar, under 1st Outer. [Eng.] -- Utter barrister (Law), one recently admitted as barrister, who is accustomed to plead without, or outside, the bar, as distinguished from the benchers, who are sometimes permitted to plead within the bar. [Eng.] Cowell.

Utter

Ut"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Uttered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Uttering.] [OE. outren, freq. of outen to utter, put out, AS. &umac;tian to put out, eject, fr. &umac;t out. &root;198. See Out, and cf. Utter, a.] 1. To put forth or out; to reach out. [Obs.]

How bragly [proudly] it begins to bud, And utter his tender head.

2. To dispose of in trade; to sell or vend. [Obs.]

Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law Is death to any he that utters them.

They bring it home, and utter it commonly by the name of Newfoundland fish.

3. hence, to put in circulation, as money; to put off, as currency; to cause to pass in trade; -- often used, specifically, of the issue of counterfeit notes or coins, forged or fraudulent documents, and the like; as, to utter coin or bank notes.

The whole kingdom should continue in a firm resolution never to receive or utter this fatal coin.

4. To give public expression to; to disclose; to publish; to speak; to pronounce. "Sweet as from blest, uttering joy." Milton.

The words I utter Let none think flattery, for they 'll find 'em truth.

And the last words he uttered called me cruel.

Syn. -- To deliver; give forth; issue; liberate; discharge; pronounce. See Deliver.

Outer.

To put forth or out; to reach out.

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Usage Examples

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

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Other Usage Examples

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.