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totally

adverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈtəʊ.tə.li//
  • Canada//ˈtoʊ.tə.li//
  • Canada/[ˈtoʊ.ɾə.li]/

To the fullest extent or degree.

adverb

  1. 1

    To the fullest extent or degree.

    They've totally demolished the bank on Main Street.

    Antonio. He misses not much. Sebastian. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.

    The languages of different nations did not totally differ […] They were therefore easily learned;

    Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you.

  2. 2

    Very; extremely.

    That was totally wicked!

  3. 3

    Definitely; for sure.

    That was totally not what happened.

    Well, we’ve spoken to a lawyer, and the answer, it turns out, is, ‘Yes. That would totally be assault.’ So we’ll say that I didn’t do it.

Etymology

Etymology tree English total Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English totally From total + -ly.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).