for the most part

Adverb

Meaning

in large part; mainly or chiefly

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Synonyms

largely mostly on the whole by and large often commonly especially generally mainly primarily overall substantially altogether predominantly principally

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Antonyms

slightly partly barely hardly incompletely insignificantly

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Examples

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. Clarence Darrow

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. Max Lerner

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. Alexander Hamilton

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Rudyard Kipling

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. William James

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. Adlai Stevenson II

Close letter words and terms

for the minute for the moment for the most for the next few days for the nonce for the observance of