mainly

Adverb

Meaning

Very strongly; mightily; to a great degree.

Principally; chiefly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

principally in the main primarily chiefly firstly main particular generally most largely mostly particularly commonly especially extremely
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Antonyms

additionally lastly although rather quite slightly
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Phrases with the word

mainly confined to cell found mainly in the blood condition that mainly affects children mainly restricted to connective tissue consisting mainly of fat cells book that consists mainly of pictures

Anagrams

aminyl amylin Milyan

Examples

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. Winston Churchill

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. Rutherford B. Hayes

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. G. H. Hardy

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. Mark Twain

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. Dave Barry

Close letter words and terms

mainline mainline crossings mainliner mainly confined to mainly restricted to mainly winter