on the whole Synonyms

altogether all in all all things considered by and large in essence most of the time on balance as a rule usually in the main broadly speaking for the most part basically generally speaking in sum this being so taking everything into account in overall in the general run of things almost entirely in most cases as a general rule on average most of all in toto in total in the long run typically at large ordinarily normally mostly mainly largely inclusively historically generally customarily commonly chiefly overall predominantly all told en masse across the board above all tout-ensemble throughout substantially regularly