Overall and Utterly

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Overall adverb - With everyone or everything taken into account at the same time.

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Utterly and overall are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Utterly" instead an adverb "Overall".

Utterly adverb - To a full extent or degree.

Usage example: we are in fact utterly out of food

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Overall and utterly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Overall" instead an adverb "Utterly".

Nearby Word: utter

You can get a scene in which our protagonist utterly humiliates an entire army of powerful magic users, sucking a giant angel into a black hole◊, and overall being a utterly terrifying Bad Ass... then in the very next scene you see his Dragon all but squeeing over how awesome he is◊.

Source: Bathos
While the girls attempting to rape the male lead are seen as utterly depraved for doing so and it's not portrayed as being remotely okay or funny, the manga has an overall pretty wacky and over the top tone.

Source: Black Comedy Rape
Overall this was a period of decline in relative power for quite some time (thanks to the Crusaders, Mongols, and the Reconquista in Spain and Portugal) but it wasn't until Baghdad was utterly destroyed that Islam's decline really set in.

Source: End of an Age

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