Word info

100 percent

Speech parts

1. 100 percent - Adjective

2. 100 percent - Adverb

3. 100 percent - Interjection

Meaning

complete, entire, whole
We are willing to provide 100 percent mortgages.
He has a 100 percent record of success.

(colloquial) Wholly sure; confident in one's knowledge.
I'm not 100 percent on that question.

Completely, entirely, wholly.
I can assure you the we are 100 percent with you in this matter.
Many retailers are now offering 100 percent natural products.

Completely well.

100 percent

(South Africa, slang) excellent, wonderful, magnificent
Your parcel has arrived. / Ah, 100 percent!

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent. Steve Buscemi

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace. Henepola Gunaratana

I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life. Timothy Leary

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right. Tyra Banks

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy. John Derbyshire

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