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totally

adv
/ˈtəʊ.tə.li/UK/ˈtoʊ.tə.li/CA

Etymology

From total + -ly.

  1. derived from tōtālis
  2. derived from total
  3. inherited from total
  4. suffixed as totally — “total + -ly”

Definitions

  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;

  2. Very

    Very; extremely.

    • That was totally wicked!

  3. Definitely

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at totally. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at totally. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at totally

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA