[ adverb ]
■ completely and without qualification
■ used informally as intensifiers
e.g.)
・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
→
absolutely
,
dead
,
perfectly
,
utterly
[ adverb ]
■ without question and beyond doubt
e.g.)
・it was decidedly too expensive
・she told him off in spades
・by all odds they should win
→
by all odds
,
decidedly
,
definitely
,
emphatically
,
in spades
,
unquestionably
[ adverb ]
■ definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely')
e.g.)
・the results are surely encouraging
・she certainly is a hard worker
・it's going to be a good day for sure
・they are coming, for certain
・they thought he had been killed sure enough
・he'll win sure as shooting
・they sure smell good
・sure he'll come
→
certainly
,
for certain
,
for sure
,
sure
,
sure as shooting
,
sure enough
,
surely
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