in the main Synonyms

mainly principally primarily usually in general mostly generally chiefly all in all as a general rule the greatest extent no end more often than not by and large in brief for the most part essentially generally speaking preponderantly habitually in essence conventionally most of the time all things considered on balance on average in a nutshell as a rule basically typically at large materially altogether main largely fundamentally firstly customarily commonly broadly normally ordinarily on the whole especially above all virtually substantially regularly predominantly particularly