mostly
[mohst-lee]
- for the most part; in the main: The work is mostly done.
- chiefly; principally.
- generally; customarily.
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Origin of mostly
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regularlyessentiallyparticularlychieflylargelyprincipallyusuallyfrequentlyoftenpredominantlycustomarilyoverallprimarilyExamples from the Web for mostly
Contemporary Examples
Three months ago, the two had a baby together and the Internet mostly just shrugged.
All Your Internet Boyfriends Are Taken: Gosling, Cumberbatch, and now Joseph Gordon-LevittMelissa Leon
January 3, 2015
“Mostly people on a budget use it,” Franz Dobersberger, managing director of a Bangkok travel agency, told The Daily Beast.
So for the 12 years he spent at Aldgate, Chaucer was mostly alone, with a teeming urban scene literally beneath his feet.
Brinsley was trying to produce tracks—hip-hop, mostly—and he apparently had a knack as a techie.
But mostly they just walked, their faces somber, their hands shaking as the snow began to fall.
Historical Examples
But mostly they hunt for this Andrew Lanning a dozen at a time.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
He can't take things on trust, and he'll mostly take 'em, anyway.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
He thought of many things, but mostly of the promise he had made his mother.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
They were mostly Beadle's Dime Novels, which had a great sale at the time.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr
They average about the same as they do in anything else, mostly good, I think.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
mostly
- almost entirely; chiefly
- on many or most occasions; usually
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