Word Finder - totally

definition

To the fullest extent or degree.

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They've totally demolished the bank on Main Street.

synonyms

• completely
• entirely
• fully
• wholly

definition

(degree) Very; extremely.

example

That was totally wicked!

definition

(modal) Definitely; for sure.

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That was totally not what happened.

We'll totally load up.

These feelings were totally foreign and unwelcome.

Totally absent was any mention of Julie O'Malley.

It's totally not fair.

As he glanced down at his vehicle, he saw both tires on the driver's side were totally flat.

He fell totally in love with you.

Her body went totally limp.

What about sessions totally conducted by phone?

Never in her life had she been so attracted to a man – so totally out of control in his presence.

When you open your mouth and something totally off the wall slips out.

Your faith in him is touching – but totally naïve.

The situation with Alex wasn't totally resolved.

She's totally sitting in Xander's lap.

I am totally ignorant in every part of useful knowledge.

I kept feeling a skip was totally out of character for him.

It's just that we came from such totally different backgrounds – even if you don't consider the money.

Logical ground and real ground are totally distinct.

Why should I confuse you with unproven suppo­sitions that may be totally irrelevant?

For a moment the idea of totally losing her identity was a frightening reality.

It was totally unprofessional – as it was right now discussing their problems with Sam.

You totally don't know that.

At last he was totally defeated at Citium, and compelled to flee to Salamis.

It is totally different in appearance from the pasture mushroom, and, like it, its characters are so distinct that there is hardly a possibility of making a mistake when its peculiarities are once comprehended.

He perished at sea on board a steamboat which was totally consumed by fire while on a voyage from New York to Boston, on the night of the 13th-14th of January 1840.

The city was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1766, and again in 1797.

In 1536 it was almost totally destroyed by fire, and in 1654 largely ruined by the explosion of a powder magazine.

The city was almost totally destroyed by the great earthquake of 1812.

A totally reflecting prism placed inside the glass cylinder projects the light which penetrates the film upon a selenium cell situated at the end of the cylinder.

The term " telephony " was first used by Philipp Reis of Friedrichsdorf, in a lecture delivered before the Physical Society of Frankfort in 1861.1 But, although this lecture and Reis's subsequent work received considerable notice, little progress was made until the subject was taken up between 1874 and 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell, a native of Edinburgh, then resident in Boston, Mass., U.S.A. Bell, like Reis, employed electricity for the reproduction of sounds; but he attacked the problem in a totally different manner.

The conduct of Italy in declining the suggestions received from Count Andrssy and General Ignatiev on the eve of the RussoTurkish Warthat Italy should seek compensation in Tunisia for the extension of Austrian sway in the Balkansand in subsequently rejecting the German suggestion to come to an arrangement with Great Britain for the occupation of Tunisia as compensation for the British occupation of Cyprus, was certainly due to fear lest an attempt on Tunisia should lead to a war with France, for which Italy knew herself to be totally unprepared.

About the same time Media was totally relinquished to the Parthians.

Even Voltaire did not venture to publish this lampoon on a great official of a prince so touchy as the king of Prussia without some permission, and if all tales are true he obtained this by another piece of something like forgery - getting the king to endorse a totally different pamphlet on its last leaf, and affixing that last leaf to Akakia.

The young couple were totally unsuited to each other.

He gave subtle hints, which I totally failed to notice.

We teach a totally artificial way of learning language.

Near the town, round a point marked by an obelisk, was fought in 1471 the decisive battle between the houses of York and Lancaster, in which the earl of Warwick fell and the Lancastrians were totally defeated.

The Mediterranean, however, has apparently been a barrier to the southward passage of the arcto-alpine flora which is totally wanting on the Atlas.

The most extraordinary feature is unquestionably the former existence of the gigantic Dinornithes or moas and, another family of Ratitae, the weird-looking kiwis or Apteryges, which are totally unlike any other existing birds.

The characteristics of the oak region, which comprises all central Russia, are totally different.

The vegetation in the marshy bottoms of the ravines and in the valleys of the streams and rivers is totally different.

In 1905 a second totally independent line was opened from Tashkent down the Syr-darya to Kazalinsk, and thence to Orenburg.

He gathered a large army consisting partly of Germans and Saracens, but was totally defeated by Charles at Tagliacozzo (23rd of August 1268); taken prisoner, he was tried as a rebel and executed at Naples.

Such, moreover, is the effect of different manures that the gross produce of the mixed herbage is totally different on the respective plots according to the manure employed, both as to the proportion of the various species composing it and as to their condition of development and maturity.

Whitworth also warned them on the 10th of April that "the chief motives for delay are that they (the French) are totally unprepared for a naval war."

Indeed it is, as the latter says, that of Linnaeus, improved by Cuvier, with an additional modification of Illiger'sall these three authors having totally ignored any but external characters.

A hurriedly equipped fleet sent out from Carthage under Hanno was intercepted by the praetor Publius Valerius Falto and totally defeated (battle of the Aegates Islands, March io, 241).

It is a voracious creature, and unchecked will often totally destroy a crop. In former years the annual damage done by it in the United States was assessed at £4,000,000 to £6,000,000.

In the same year the Carthaginians invaded Sicily, but were totally defeated at Himera, the result of the victory being that Gelo became lord of all Sicily.

The Cephisus, rising in Pentelicus, enters the sea at New Phalerum; in summer it dwindles to an insignificant stream, while the Ilissus, descending from Hymettus, is totally dry, probably owing to the destruction of the ancient forests on both mountains, and the consequent denudation of the soil.

After several battles, in which the advantage was generally on the side of the French, a decisive engagement took place near Catania, on the 20th of April 1676, when the Dutch fleet was totally routed and de Ruyter mortally wounded.