principally

Adverb

Meaning

In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mainly chiefly mostly primarily in the main firstly first generally largely particularly especially overall notably substantially predominantly
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Antonyms

conversely lastly but although rather finally
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Phrases with the word

principally new

Examples

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party. Hans Frank

The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity. Immanuel Kant

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. Jonathan Swift

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. Josh Billings

Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires? J. M. Coetzee

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity. Mikhail Bakunin

Close letter words and terms

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