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TOTALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly')

Example:

he fell right into the trap

Synonyms:

all; altogether; completely; entirely; right; totally; whole; wholly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

total (constituting the full quantity or extent; complete)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Atherosclerosis usually doesn't cause symptoms until it severely narrows or totally blocks an artery.

(Atherosclerosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

He is totally beyond the reach of any sentiment of justice or compassion.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But this possession of her was dim and nebulous and totally different from possession as he had known it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Interstellar space is mostly a vacuum, so there is no medium that can carry sound. In other words, space is totally silent.

(Does Our Galaxy Sound Like Funky Blues Music?, George Putic/VOA)

Totally bedfast and requiring extensive nursing care by professionals and/or family.

(Australia-Modified Karnofsky Performance Status 20, NCI Thesaurus)

As to her family, they were totally unworthy of her, and their sentiments were utterly indifferent to him, and they might—I quote his own expression—go to the Devil.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I loved my brothers, Elizabeth, and Clerval; these were “old familiar faces,” but I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A type of osteochondritis in which articular cartilage and associated bone becomes partially or totally detached to form joint loose bodies.

(Osteochondritis Dissecans, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Nearly all of them were totally ruined—an irreparable loss.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You totally disallow any similarity in the obligations; and may I not thence infer that your notions of the duties of the dancing state are not so strict as your partner might wish?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)