their parents are neglected and reduced to utter poverty里utter 是动词还是形容词呢?为什么?

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their parents are neglected and reduced to utter poverty里utter 是动词还是形容词呢?为什么?

这里的to明显是介词,因为utter作动词是意为"说",明显意思不对.
所以utter是形容词,意为"彻底的"