one hundred percent

English

Alternative forms

• 100%
• a hundred percent (rare)
• one hundred per cent

Pronunciation

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Adjective

one hundred percent (not comparable)

1. Complete, entire, whole, perfect.

   We are willing to provide one hundred percent mortgages.

   He has a one hundred percent record of success.

2. Completely sure.
   • 2010 October 17, Hadley Freeman, “Tattoos: what makes one spiritual and another Katona-esque?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     And did Nixon ever cover up a tattoo of the name of a second ex-husband with what has been described as "a fiery phoenix" to represent why one should never be tattooed with the name of one's spouse, particularly if he was a former drug dealer – oh, no, I mean, "to represent rising from the ashes and starting a new beginning", as Katona has explained? Again, one cannot be 100% on this, but it does seem unlikely.

3. Well, good, okay.

   I'm not feeling one hundred percent today.

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one hundred,‎ percent.

   Our new recruits represent a one hundred percent increase in membership.

Synonyms

• cent percent (India)
• centum (India)

Translations

complete, total

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百分之百 (zh) (bǎifen zhi bǎi)

• French: cent pour cent (fr), 100 % (fr)
• German: hundertprozentig (de)
• Hungarian: százszázalékos (hu)
• Japanese: 百パーセント (hyaku pāsento), 100% (hyaku pāsento)
• Korean: 100 퍼센트 (baek peosenteu), 100% (baek peosenteu)
• Persian: صددرصد (sad-darsad)
• Polish: na sto procent (pl), stuprocentowy (pl)
• Portuguese: cem por cento
• Romanian: de o sută de procente
• Russian: стопроце́нтный (ru) (stoprocéntnyj)
• Turkish: yüzde yüz (tr)
• Ukrainian: стовідсо́тко́вий (stovidsótkóvyj), стопроце́нтний (stoprocéntnyj)

Adverb

one hundred percent (not comparable)

1. Totally, completely.

   This drink is one hundred percent organic.

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     “NO!” shouted Auntie Flip. “NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Absolutely one hundred per cent no.”

Translations

completely, totally

• Catalan: cent per cent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 完全 (jyun⁴ cyun⁴)

  Hokkien: 百分之百 (zh-min-nan) (pah-hun chi pah)

  Mandarin: 百分之百 (zh) (bǎifen zhi bǎi)

• French: cent pour cent (fr)
• German: einhundert Prozent
• Japanese: 百パーセント (hyaku pāsento)
• Korean: 100 퍼센트 (baek peosenteu), 100 프로 (baek peuro)
• Persian: صددرصد (sad-darsad)
• Polish: na sto procent (pl), bez reszty (pl)
• Portuguese: cem por cento
• Romanian: sută la sută
• Russian: на сто проце́нтов (ru) (na sto procéntov), на 100% (na 100%)
• Spanish: cien por ciento, al cien (colloquial, Mexico)
• Turkish: yüzde yüz (tr)