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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PER'FECTLY, adv. In the highest degree of excellence.
1. Totally; completely; as work perfectly executed or performed; a thing perfectly new.
2. Exactly; accurately; as a proposition perfectly understood.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" [syn: absolutely, perfectly, utterly, dead]
2: in a perfect or faultless way; "She performed perfectly on the balance beam"; "spoke English perfectly"; "solved the problem perfectly" [ant: amiss, imperfectly]

Merriam Webster's

adverb Date: 14th century 1. in a perfect manner 2. to a complete or adequate extent ; quite <was perfectly happy until now>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. 1 completely; absolutely (I understand you perfectly). 2 quite, completely (is perfectly capable of doing it). 3 in a perfect way.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Perfectly Per"fect*ly, adv. In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly. ``Perfectly divine.'' --Milton. As many as touched were made perfectly whole. --Matt. xiv. 36.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. You can use perfectly to emphasize an adjective or adverb, especially when you think the person you are talking to might doubt what you are saying. There's no reason why you can't have a perfectly normal child... They made it perfectly clear that it was pointless to go on... You know perfectly well what happened. = quite ADV: ADV adj/adv [emphasis] 2. If something is done perfectly, it is done so well that it could not possibly be done better. This adaptation perfectly captures the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut's novel... The system worked perfectly. ADV: ADV with v 3. If you describe something as perfectly good or acceptable, you are emphasizing that there is no reason to use or get something else, although other people may disagree. You can buy perfectly good instruments for a lot less. ADV: ADV adj/adv [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. 1. Exquisitely, consummately. 2. Fully, entirely, totally, completely, alto gether, thoroughly. 3. Exactly, accurately.

Moby Thesaurus

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