Radically vs Totally - What's the difference?
radically | totally |
In a radical manner; fundamentally; very.
* 2013 , Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing]
At the root.
* 1788 , Jonathan Edwards, in a report to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences:
Entirely; completely.
(degree, colloquial) Very; extremely.
(modal, colloquial) Definitely.
As adverbs the difference between radically and totally
is that radically is in a radical manner; fundamentally; very while totally is entirely; completely.radically
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- two radically different political groups
- The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
- "Clot" and "clod" are radically the same word.
- This [Algonquian] language [family] is spoken by all the Indians throughout New England. Every tribe, as that of Stockbridge, that of Farmington, that of New London, &c. has a different dialect [i.e. language], but the language [family] is radically the same.
totally
English
Adverb
(-)- The car was totally destroyed in the crash.
- That was totally wicked!
- That was totally not what happened.