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Definition of Totally
1. Adverb. To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly'). "A whole new idea"
Language type: Colloquialism
Partainyms: Complete, Entire, Total, Whole
Antonyms: Partly
Definition of Totally
1. adv. In a total manner; wholly; entirely.
Definition of Totally
1. Adverb. Entirely; completely. ¹
2. Adverb. (context: degree colloquial) Very; extremely. ¹
3. Adverb. (context: modal colloquial) Definitely. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Totally
1. completely [adv] - See also: completely
Lexicographical Neighbors of Totally
Literary usage of Totally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"... i lenee of a totally different kind. If George I Eliot were a novel writer,
in the ordinary [ sense of the term, we should have a right to complain of ..."
2. Rob Roy by Walter Scott, Sr. (2001)
"... which renders our palate totally unfit for relishing or distinguishing the
viands which are subsequently subjected to its criticism. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"BULL, a ludicrous speech in which the ideas combined are totally incongruous or
contradictory. A good example is Artemus Ward's saying of Jefferson Davis ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"But e was totally unfitted to fill such an important post as that of the American
seere- tary,and the ambiguous 'Confession of Faith" which he made on ..."
5. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1843)
"... being totally independent of the patient's welfare and sufferings. Moreover,
the world is the abode of disease, and human beings are the patients : if ..."
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