plumb

Examples

• All

• Are our politicians gone plumb crazy?

  Blog text (19)

• Have you lost your mind, have you plumb lost your mind?

  Juwanna Mann (2002)

• And then when all the press stopped benchmarking it and all those users, well, they're just Plumb out of warranty.

• Her explanation was plumb confusing, making it hard to understand.

• The new rules are plumb ridiculous for our team.

Synonyms

P

plum

vsplumb

• Informal

9.9

Completely used in informal speech to emphasize something

is used broadly in American informal speech rather than only regionally

C

clean

vsplumb

• Informal

4.5

Completely to show that an action is total

is used as a general intensifier beyond verbs and specific actions

Antonyms

P

partially

198 2.4

To some degree but not completely

I

incompletely

2 3.4

Partly done and not finished

Compounds

P

plumb line

• Specialized

1 5.3

A string with a metal weight that shows a straight up-and-down line

P

plumb bob

7.0

A heavy pointed weight on a string used to show a vertical line

P

plumb level

• Specialized

7.2

A tool with a hanging string and a bubble level to check vertical or horizontal lines

P

plumb rule

• Specialized

7.9

A straight narrow board with a hanging weight used to check if a wall is perfectly vertical

How Complete

plumb

• Informal

7.3

mostly

∞ 1.0

largely

602 2.4

partly

375 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology