Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Entirely; wholly; completely.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- As a total; completely; entirely; wholly; utterly.
Wiktionary
- adv. Entirely; completely.
- adv. degree, colloquial Very; extremely.
- adv. modal, colloquial Definitely.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a total manner; wholly; entirely.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
Etymologies
- total + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Coptic is an uncultivated and formal tongue, with monosyllabic roots and _rude inflexions, totally different_ from the neighbouring languages of Syria and Arabia, _totally opposite_ to the copious and polished Sanscrit.”
“I wouldn't use the term "totally safe" in relation to radioactive material leaking into groundwater.”
“I wasn't sure whether or not "sistren" worked or had been used by anyone, so I googled it, and it totally is a word!”
“He was staring at her, his expression totally bewildered.”
“He pressed his forehead to mine briefly, then pulled away, his expression totally unrevealing, and now that I was more than ready to hear him out, he seemed reluctant to begin.”
“For all the talk about artistry, when Kelly Clarkson actually did make the album she wanted, the label totally threw her under the bus, ran over her, then backed over her again, didn't they?”
“Speaking the day before the wrestling test event was due to start at the ExCeL centre, the president of the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles Fila, Raphaël Martinetti, was fiercely critical of British Wrestling's policy of recruiting athletes from overseas and its post‑Games planning, which he described as "totally stupid".”
“Miliband proposes every local party should meet twice a year with its local union levypayers to end what he describes as a "totally detached" relationship.”
The Guardian: Ed Miliband sets out reform agenda and says: Labour cannot go on like this
“So what attracted him to the part of Will Emerson, which he describes as "totally amoral"?”
“Also did abseiling and canoeing, all of which she described as totally amazing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘totally’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Costa Vida
The Costal Life
surf, carve, tubular, rip curl, curl, froth, floater, tweak, wafting, off the wall, pocket, rad and 39 more...
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Pseudo-edge
The middle-aged corporate marketer's version of a teen lexicon.
ultimate, extreme, chillin, totally, bling, karma, stoke, smooth, flav, punch, ish, hype and 46 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Love
I abosolutly posotutly love all the words in this list.
strange, soccer, totally, like, radical, awesome, retro, funky
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likaluca's Words
recursive, genuflect, libidinous, emote, smote, importune, trill, chillax, overshare, shorn, needle, ego and 162 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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words of youth
whatever, dude, random, totally, uh, like, not, embarrass, yeah, sweet, cool, what the and 7 more...
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Words that I use far too often
I do, actually...
inappropriate, actually, totally, intrigued, over the top, bloody hell, fuck, hopefully, absolutely, takes the biscuit, takes the biscuit, basically and 1 more...
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for me not to overuse when public-spe...
um, ah, if you will, sort of, well, so, kind of, like, you know, man, dude, totally and 11 more...
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Overused
Words that are used way too much in conversation, especially by me. Which is not to say I don't like them
awkward, random, totally, so, fully, sweet, whatever, bloody, skill0rz, skillage, skill, oh my god and 35 more...
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dislikes
milieu, empowerment, facilitator, guesstimate, awesome, issues, genre, gig, dinkum, proactive, whilst, bitching and 5 more...
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Inguriddo's list
linger, smooth, devour, excruciating, totally, bogus, wreck, labyrinth, complexity, reserved, vanish, disappear and 33 more...
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banned
alot, woulda, really, like, um, random, okay, totally, sort of, in my mind, would of, sort've and 13 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for totally.
lampbane For when you need to talk like a Valley girl:
"The walls in the mall are totally totally tall."
(From Tiny Toon Adventures) Nov 23, 2009
bilby Unintentional Tom Swiftie. Came about through environment groups lobbying against a new project that is ultimately owned by the energy company Total.
"Activist: So we've sent them a letter outlining our concerns about the gas plant.
Interviewer: Do you really think they'll listen to you?
Activist: I don't think they'll ignore us totally."
- ABC radio, May 2008. Jun 6, 2008