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say it: TOH-tuh-lee
totally is an adverb meaning "to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')". It carries one recorded sense.
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
“he was wholly convinced”
“entirely satisfied with the meal”
“it was completely different from what we expected”
“was completely at fault”
“a totally new situation”
“the directions were all wrong”
“it was not altogether her fault”
“an altogether new approach”
“a whole new idea”
“she felt right at home”
“he fell right into the trap”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for totally come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.