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totally

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Etymology

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From total +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

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totally (not comparable)

  1. To the fullest extent or degree.
    Synonyms: completely, entirely, fully, wholly
    They've totally demolished the bank on Main Street.
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
      Antonio. He misses not much.
      Sebastian. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.
    • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 2, in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‎[1], volume 1, London: for the author, page 59:
      The languages of different nations did not totally differ […] They were therefore easily learned;
    • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 57:
      Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you.
    • 1969, Chaim Potok, chapter 12, in The Promise‎[2], New York: Knopf, page 226:
      I trust him totally and without reservation.
    • 2019 September 26, Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Wanted: A design team for a building project at Earth’s most remote location – Antarctica”, in CNN‎[3]:
      The project poses exceptional challenges, given that Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth, as well as the most remote and inaccessible, being almost totally covered by a vast ice sheet.
  2. (degree, colloquial) Very; extremely.
    That was totally wicked!
  3. (modal, colloquial) Definitely; for sure.
    That was totally not what happened.

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