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Purely vs Totally - What's the difference?

purely | totally | Synonyms |

Purely is a synonym of totally.


As adverbs the difference between purely and totally

is that purely is while totally is entirely; completely.

purely

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • * 1962 , , Flush Times :
    • I am fascinated by the entire scene, I purely am.
  • Solely; exclusively; merely, simply.
  • * 2005 , Owen Bowcott, The Guardian , 8 Apr 2005:
    • The IRA should "lead by example" and "unilaterally" abandon paramilitary violence and adopt a purely political strategy, a leading Sinn Féin MP urged yesterday.
  • * 2007 , ‘(Helen Brooks)’, His Christmas Bride :
  • *:"But this meal tonight is not a date, not in the traditional sense. It's purely platonic, I assure you."
  • Chastely, innocently; in a sinless manner, without fault.
  • * 1623 , (William Shakespeare), Troilus and Cressida , First Folio, IV.7:
    • faith and troth, / Strain'd purely from all hollow bias drawing: / Bids thee with most diuine integritie, / From heart of very heart, great Hector welcome.
  • * 1823 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Table Talk :
    • By some means or other the water flows purely , and separated from the filth, in a deeper and narrower course on one side of the rock, and the refuse of the dirt and troubled water goes off on the other in a broader current [...].
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    totally

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Entirely; completely.
    • The car was totally destroyed in the crash.
  • (degree, colloquial) Very; extremely.
    • That was totally wicked!
  • (modal, colloquial) Definitely.
    • That was totally not what happened.

    Synonyms

    * See also