perfectly

Etymology

perfect + -ly

adv

  1. With perfection.
    They completed the first series perfectly.
  2. Wholly, completely, totally.
    Their performance was perfectly fine.
    Skydiving is jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
    James Milner's angled free-kick was headed on to the post by the tireless [Darren] Bent and [Frank] Lampard the opportunist was perfectly placed to stoop and head in from virtually on the goal-line. 12 November 2011, “International friendly: England 1 – 0 Spain”, in BBC Sport
    The route taken does not have to be a perfectly straight line, just so long as it is linear and is followed consistently for each transect taken. 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4

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