Totally
['təʊtəlɪ] or ['totəli]
Definition
(adv.) In a total manner; wholly; entirely.
Checker: Valerie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Entirely, wholly, fully, quite, altogether
ANT:Partially, incompletely
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Examples
- So long, so totally separated from him, merely to see his home, to enter the room where he had that morning sat, felt like a reunion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A man of any rank may, without any reproach, abstain totally from tasting such liquors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- How was it he had totally disappeared on leaving ship, 'till found in river? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Harriet Smith has some first-rate qualities, which Mrs. Elton is totally without. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I offer it, as totally new, to the worn-out dramatists of France. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Sir Thomas heard with some surprise that it would be totally out of Mrs. Norris's power to take any share in the personal charge of her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- When I am totally prostrated (did I mention that I was totally prostrated by Marian's letter? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Yet I hardly know how, cried Marianne, unless it had been under totally different circumstances. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Of course these peoples out of Asia were totally illiterate and artistically undeveloped. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The ex-queen gives me Idris; Adrian is totally unfitted to succeed to the earldom, and that earldom in my hands becomes a kingdom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- These instances are in themselves totally distinct from each other, and have no union but in the mind, which observes them, and collects their ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I cannot agree with you; I am convinced that my father would totally disapprove it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- That of an individual is totally excluded from making any part of his neat revenue, which must consist altogether in his profits. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the Ateuchus or sacred beetle of the Egyptians, they are totally deficient. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Therefore, for totally different reasons, her food was as poor as Mrs. Archer's, and her wines did nothing to redeem it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He persecuted Greek literature, about which, until late in life, he was totally ignorant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dr. Grant and Mrs. Norris were seldom good friends; their acquaintance had begun in dilapidations, and their habits were totally dissimilar. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I need not so totally despair of an equal alliance, as to be addressing myself to Miss Smith! Jane Austen. Emma.
- He was totally unaffected by the abrupt change in pressure, although the deepest he had ever been was ninety feet, and on that occasion he had suffered from bleeding at the nose and ears. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Suppose the nerve fibers responsible for carrying the red are totally defective. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The evening passed without a pause of misery, the night was totally sleepless. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- In the background was one happy man dancing by himself, with closed eyes, totally oblivious of all the rest. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This evil is totally different from the first: in one case divorce contributes to prostitution, in the other, prostitution leads to divorce. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was totally defeated by General Prentiss, who was holding Helena with less than forty-two hundred soldiers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the dark, chlorine and hydrogen are simply chlorine and hydrogen; in the sunlight they combine as if by magic into a totally different substance. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This is not a time for a lady, however highly connected, to be totally inaudible, and seemingly swallowing marbles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- A messenger was sent after me to stop my leaving; but before he could reach me I was off, totally ignorant of these events. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. Jane Austen. Emma.
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