Utter Definition

ŭtər

uttered, uttering, utters, utterest

verb

uttered, uttering, utters

To send forth with the voice.

Uttered a cry.

American Heritage

To speak or converse.

Webster's New World

To produce, speak, or express audibly (speech sounds, syllables, words, thoughts, etc.)

Webster's New World

To give out; put forth: now used only of the passing of counterfeit money or forged checks.

Webster's New World

To express in any way.

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adjective

utterest

Complete; total.

Webster's New World

Unqualified; absolute; unconditional.

Webster's New World

(now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote. [from 10th c.]

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1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10.

So forth without impediment I past, / Till to the Bridges utter gate I came [...] .

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adverb

(obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

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Other Word Forms of Utter

Base Form:

utter

Superlative:

Middle English utteren partly from Middle Low German uteren (from uter outer) (comparative of ūt out ud- in Indo-European roots) and alteration (influenced by utter outer) of Middle English outen to disclose (from out out out)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English from Old English ūtera outer ud- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Old English Å«tera, comparative of Å«t (“out"); compare outer.

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

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Old English Å«tor, comparative of Å«t (“out").

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