fully disagree vs strongly disagree

[VocabAdam]

Hi,

I want to use the phrase "fully disagree" as an alternative to "strongly disagree". I can find a few examples on the Internet, but it isn't common. Is this a good alternative?

Thanks

 

[Copyright]

I would say that it's not. What I do hear is "completely disagree."

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[MilkyBarKid]

I fully agree with...
I totally disagree with...

 

[nzfauna]

To my ears, 'fully something" sounds colloquial. But I imagine that's because the construction became popular with teenagers in my region when I was a teenager. Everything was "fully" this or that.

However:

Fully disagree, totally disagree, completely disagree, wholly disagree, completely opposed, are semantic synonyms for being 100% in disagreement with something.

Whereas "strongly disagree" is not 100% disagreement.

 

[Hermione Golightly]

I think it might depend on whom I am talking to, whether opponent or supporter of my own view.
I fully/ entirely/completely/absolutely agree with somebody who has the same views as me; I totally/ completely/ absolutely/entirely but never 'fully' disagree with the person whose views I oppose. 'Fully disagree' isn't a natural collocation in my personal speech pattern. I can't explain it logically.

Hermione

 

[BenRedfern]

Thanks for your really helpful posts on this.
I was thinking that disagree and fully disagree are very similar.
Less than disagree might be partially or somewhat.
Ben

 

[sound shift]

'Fully disagree' isn't a natural collocation in my personal speech pattern.

Or in mine.

 

[Hermione Golightly]

Welcome to the forum Ben! I nearly had a heart attack because I had no recollection whatsoever of writing about 'fully dis/agree'! How glad I am that the thread goes back almost seven years. Phew! I haven't changed my mind about that, but these days I wouldn't write ' ... whom ... to'.

 

[BenRedfern]

Welcome to the forum Ben! I nearly had a heart attack because I had no recollection whatsoever of writing about 'fully dis/agree'! How glad I am that the thread goes back almost seven years. Phew! I haven't changed my mind about that, but these days I wouldn't write ' ... whom ... to'.

Thanks Hermione,
I found these posts very helpful, so many words are used now without thinking of meaning. Than then a country like ours that is miles from anywhere with significant migration since white settlement, we have a lot of colloquialisms.
What a great forum.
Thanks and cheers, Ben