Definition of Utter

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Definition of Utter

Utter

Outer.

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

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

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

To put forth or out; to reach out.

To dispose of in trade; to sell or vend.

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.

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

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Utter Quotations

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

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy

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

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle

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

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
William Wordsworth

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.
Neale Donald Walsch

Utter Translations

utter in Afrikaans is ontlok, uithaal
utter in Dutch is ontlokken, uitbrengen, slaken
utter in Italian is estrinsecare
utter in Latin is effundo
utter in Portuguese is total
utter in Spanish is exteriorizar
utter in Swedish is ytterlig, yttra

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