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totally

[toht-l-ee]

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adverb

wholly; entirely; completely.

Origin:
1500–10; total + -ly

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Totally is always a great word to know.

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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It is hard to know where these totally erroneous ideas come from.

The old ways should not be totally dismissed either.

The notion of driverless vehicles is not totally absurd.

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It is hard to know where these totally erroneous ideas come from.

The old ways should not be totally dismissed either.

The notion of driverless vehicles is not totally absurd.

Print and plaid options are totally unique, and all colorways get the added pop of contrast-color zippers.

The idea of a totally automated society seems pretty inhumane.

Kudzu is totally out of control, and there is no easy or inexpensive way to stop it.

Crunchy on the outside, creamy and nutty inside, these fries are totally over the top.

Lying in bed, you're totally conscious, and you realize that strange things are happening.

He believed that science and religion are two totally separate ways of discovering truth.

First, although both activities deal with money, they are totally separate types of operations.

Check out this totally gross video about snails and the parasites that take over their bodies.

California's totally ablaze, and the cops are laying the blame on marijuana growers.

By the time you finish reading this paragraph you will be totally fluent in a foreign language.

Totally exposed, the old front yard consisted of a sickly lawn.

It's not totally clear why users were returning the unit.

After all, it's natural not to feel totally at home in anything you do.

Others have seen their land almost totally submerged.

Other eclipses may be longer, but none will see the sun totally eclipsed for so long.

Thus, in the superposition of states the resonator is never really in two totally distinct places.

It was totally fascinating to see the world from this perspective.

We can't influence the former, but the latter is totally under our control.

Even if totally complete, the lower jaw would have fit comfortably in the palm of your hand.

Felt totally justified in buying three books yesterday.

Airlines are still going bust, and oil is partly, if not totally responsible.

But even this paradise hasn't remained totally pristine.

Thus, in the superposition of states the resonator was never really in two totally distinct places.

It was so much fun, and totally different than distilling a whole story into one single image.

Most rhododendrons that have small leaves have a rich, totally unexpected piney scent that you'll love.

It feels totally wrong for suggesting a kind of glove.

At busy times it is often not only slow but totally unusable.

Fish feeding in the area appear to be totally unaffected, yet sharks detect the substance in even minute proportions.

But anyway, stopping short of the red planet itself is totally stupid.

The big question now is when the ice will disappear totally each summer.

Loaded with new features, this year's boots are all-new and totally upgraded.

The bicycle example you gave is totally inappropriate for this discussion.

Totally agree so called patriotism and radical religions need to stop banging the war drum.

My frozen-yogurt habit is getting totally out of hand.

But its inside is totally vacant of any useful substance.

The software produced a stutter-bark that sounded authentic but was totally different from the calls of any of the park's males.

Recent studies show the sun is not totally immobile.

Perhaps you can tell my why it is totally ignored by your page and all the others when it is so widely viewed.

Or go totally public--join groups, invite friends, write blogs.

Everyone knows that the adverse scenario is totally unrealistic.

But occasionally something totally new comes along-and finds us sitting ducks.

He had tinkered with it long enough to think it might not be totally unreliable.

Every once in awhile, a totally innovative product comes along that completely wows us.

The current government is totally inept- indeed it is rudderless.

The theory about poison, on the other hand, has not been totally ruled out.

They are beautiful,gracefull, and totally misunderstood.

That's a funny-and totally believable--story about zucchini.

It was a job for someone totally loyal to the system.

Lloyd said that while the reasons for the decoupling are not fully understood, the decoupling is not totally unexpected.

These infants would be better off dead rather than being totally altered by these women.

Sometimes a beehive will swarm in succession until it is almost totally depleted of workers.

Allowing this to start all over again as if nothing had happened would be totally irresponsible.

It totally breaks my heart hearing about the killings.

Just for fun, though, we're also making a batch totally from scratch.

Coming up with mould-breaking innovations is totally different from making incremental improvements.

The change of a leader could totally take away these rights.

The millennium computer bug is totally predictable in its timing, but completely unpredictable in its effects.

The state, for years almost totally dependent on growth, has one of the deepest budget deficits in the country.

Worst-case warming scenario may bring totally new kinds of tropical climate and cause others to disappear.

We should totally invite the second poster out for drinks.

It is totally possible that big black eyes are an adaption to a differing light spectrum as would come from say a red sun.

They're totally legit too, didn't fall off the back of some truck.

Strange, then, that her later life was given up totally to others.

And whether or not the ivorybill ends up persisting out there is totally irrelevant.

It's either the ultimate in couch comfort or a totally bizarre idea dreamed up by a pair of designers obsessed with neuroscience.

It was totally fine for them to give us short, abbreviated texts.

If totally deprived of shut-eye, humans ultimately perish.

Few animals can live totally in the dark, and penguins are no exception.

Make up for the mess of air travel with a totally fly, entertaining, and lightweight travel kit.

So, they could not be changed, though the next contract bargained for could be totally different.

Three out of four adults were functionally illiterate and more than one in ten totally so.

Babies are blind and totally dependent on their mothers for two or three months.

Our insurance totally denied our claim for a prosthetic arm and they are quite expensive.

And some were totally oblivious to what was happening.

It is a totally unpredictable occurrence in the field, and it matters not.

A-list artists ditching the record industry's business model is totally the new black.

She is a conniving and totally ill-prepared administrator who has absolutely no people.

As they look out of their windows they can envisage a totally new.

During the three-week expedition, the group has little contact with the outside world and must be totally self-sufficient.

Each roll of the die, each pull of the lever gives a result that is totally unrelated to the events that came before it.

To compare both kneeldowns as similar to me is totally disgusting.

Every once in awhile, a totally innovative product comes along.

And he did this all by sharing with everyone the results of his own creativity, totally.

So all the student reviews and syllabi etc are for totally unrelated courses and work.

And even the politics may not be totally intractable.

Focusing more on chronic disease need not totally compete with efforts to control infection and malnutrition.

The quilts are totally beautiful, but aside from that, there's a whole history.

It is almost totally dry throughout the rest of the year.

University heads increasingly complain about students totally unprepared for higher education.

Instead of finding sprites, the team caught something totally unexpected.

But she hadn't come up with a design yet she was totally pleased with.

If you want to look into something totally unrelated to your specific field then it probably won't help.

Wow, what a totally awesome and informative article.

It's totally safe for the environment and leaves no garbage.

But the press totally failed to report that members of the market must have knowledge of the market.

Behind the wheel you're totally free, going where you want.

I'll bet you either stop doing it completely or you get a reputation as a totally cool professor.

We haven't found the evidence yet to totally resolve it".

The graphs show that methane absorbs photons that water vapor totally absorbs already.

But building a totally secure and reliable cloud-based system, or indeed any other kind of computer system, is impossible.

But proving they could also swim has been difficult, because an animal that is totally afloat leaves no tracks.

No herbicides on driveways, garden edges, curb edges and all the other destructive and totally unnecessary herbicide use.

Promotion is totally separate and that's what you make the big file for.

But others are totally unexpected-another example of emergent properties.

The obedience issue and the hunting behavior were totally connected.

Neurology and science in general have totally failed thus far to explain consciousness, sentience, and the subjective experience.

The second was obnoxious and totally blew his interview in everyway possible.

They are prone to albinism, occasionally appearing totally white.

The butterfly effect is so small as to be totally irrelevant.

Our landlord, who is totally irresponsible and has violatd both our lease and our local landlord/tenant law in multiple.

But as a person ages, too many of the stem cells mature until the pool of pigment cells gets totally drained and hair grows gray.

Totally think the manufacturing cost of the vehicle has to be considered too.

Why mess with a good thing and it sticks the real name right in the face of all of those who totally misunderstand science.

Because the scenery up here is totally different from down below.

They have fixed incomes and increasing rent, totally left at the mercy of the state.

It totally disarmed me and at the same time made me feel completely embraced.

Psychotherapy is a totally different, longer and expensive way for mind improvement.

Einstein him self would be totally amazed by your imagination of reality unfolding.

All of us listening to the radio were totally shocked and demoralized by this news.

Zen gardens, but it is now so overrun with tourists of all kinds that its meaning and its value for meditation is totally lost.

If you're totally in front of the wave, you can't see what the next one's going to do.

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World English Dictionary

total (ˈtəʊt^əl)

—n
1.	the whole, esp regarded as the complete sum of a number of parts

—*adj*
2.	complete; absolute: the evening was a total failure; a total eclipse
3.	(prenominal) being or related to a total: the total number of passengers

—vb (when intr, sometimes foll by to) , -tals, -talling, -talled, -tals, -taling, -taled
4.	to amount: to total six pounds
5.	(tr) to add up: to total a list of prices
6.	slang (tr) to kill or badly injure (someone)
7.	chiefly (US) (tr) to damage (a vehicle) beyond repair

[C14: from Old French, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from Latin tōtus all]

'totally

—*adv*

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totally definition

mod.
absolutely; completely. (Standard. Achieves slang status through overuse.) : How totally gross!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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