largelylarge‧ly /ˈlɑːdʒli $ ˈlɑːr-/ ●●○ W2 adverb 
The state of Nevada is largely desert. It had been a tiring day, largely because of all the tedious waiting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Most of the cities depend largely on hydroelectric power.
- Our church's congregation is largely made up of young families with children.
Longman Language Activatorways of stating the main reason for something or the main part of something
use this to say what the main reason for something or the main part of something is: · I was asked to lead the meeting mainly because Kristin is out of town.· My new job's fairly boring - it's mainly typing.· The company sells its batteries mainly through electronics stores.
largely and chiefly mean the same as mainly , but they are used especially in written or formal English: · The bird lives chiefly on mice and other small animals.· The report says that drug use is largely responsible for the 40% rise in the city's homicide rate.· Money raised by the new tax is to be used chiefly for road construction.
firstly and most importantly: · Foreign aid is intended principally for the south of the region.· The agency is primarily concerned with making sure the nation's food supplies are safe.· She has a degree in anthropology, but she's primarily a writer.
most importantly compared to other things, especially ones you have just mentioned: · Above all, she will be remembered for all the work she did in the community.· Teaching history means above all knowing how to tell a story.
use this to say that something is the most important thing, and needs to be dealt with before anything else and given attention before anything else: · First and foremost, they are looking for ways to save money.· What children need first and foremost from their parents is a sense of security.
when there is much more of one type than of other types · Apart from the Nile valley, Egypt is mostly desert.· I used to read a lot of poetry, mainly love poetry.· The new immigrants were mainly from Southern Europe.· The surface of Mercury seems to consist largely of dust.
if something, especially a group of people, is predominantly of a particular type, most of it is of that type: · The character Shylock is a Jew living in a predominantly Christian society.· As a civil engineer, Susan will be competing in a predominantly male profession.· Our economy is predominantly capitalist.
formal if people or things of a particular type predominate in a place or situation, they are present in greater numbers than other types of people or things: · Dairy farms predominate in Sussex.· In the summer, blue and pink flowers predominate, but there are white flowers, too, for contrast.
if people of a particular kind are in the majority in an organization or group, they form the largest part of it: · The number of women on the committee has grown steadily and now they are in the majority.
formal if there is a preponderance of people or things of a particular type in a group, most of the people or things in the group are of that type - used especially when the group is being studied: · At some universities, there is a preponderance of older lecturers.· They chose to investigate reasons for the preponderance of large families among the poor and ill-educated.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Television is partly to blame. The audience consisted mainly of teenagers. The restaurant’s success was due largely to its new manager. His age is completely irrelevant if he can do the job. a purely speculative theory about life on other planets
Television is partly to blame. The audience consisted mainly of teenagers. The restaurant’s success was due largely to its new manager. His age is completely irrelevant if he can do the job. a purely speculative theory about life on other planets· The vote was largely symbolic.
· The public was largely unaware of the security measures.
· The advertising campaign has been largely unsuccessful.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· The force of this affirmation, however, is largely dependent upon the continuous union of man and nature in the Over-Soul.· Maturation studies, based on geochemical analysis, demonstrate that gas-generative maturity is largely dependent on Jurassic burial.· Huge growth in the service sector is largely dependent on people and not machines.· Again the permeability is largely dependent upon sediment sorting and the presence of cements, or authigenic growths in the pore throats.· This, however, is highly speculative and largely dependent on a perpetual bull market.· Selection of patients for treatment is largely dependent upon referral from a district centre.· Even at the best companies, family friendliness is often episodic, largely dependent on relationships with an immediate supervisor.
· The remainder were largely due to sewage, industrial pollution or oil spillages.· That was largely due to the centralized organization mandated for all Air Force wings-and its damaging results.· Global warming is largely due to the loading of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.· In my view, this is largely due to the fact that he saw purpose very much in terms of particular design.· Officials said the increase was largely due to extra holidays abroad encouraged by the favourable exchange rate of sterling.· Thus, present-day surface relief is largely due to movements that occurred during and since the Tertiary Period.· The improved forecast is largely due to lower projected costs for Medicare and Medicaid and welfare reform.
· The identity of the genitor in such cases is largely irrelevant.· The comfort, or lack of it, at training camp is largely irrelevant.· Where obligation is the key, policy is largely irrelevant.· The precise timing of this process is largely irrelevant.· By the late 1980s, debates surrounding the rate question became largely irrelevant.· If films have little peripheral information in them then it may be that memory for such information is largely irrelevant.· From the child's viewpoint arguments over management are largely irrelevant.· Men are now recruited into a national labour pool and their home base is largely irrelevant to where they take ships.
· The apparent movement of both the lion and the Cupids along an imaginary, oblique line is largely responsible for this effect.· Reagan, with his extraordinary knack for bringing people together, was largely responsible for this.· As this portrait indicates, Margaret Massingberd was largely responsible for creating much of the garden areas as they still exist today.· The government said the change to chain weights was largely responsible for the higher estimate.· A grand little chap called Willie Workman was largely responsible.· By all accounts, technology is largely responsible for fueling the self-employment trend among the disabled.· The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period.· The logical result of such thinking is that parents feel largely responsible when things go wrong.
· The government has made minor cuts on welfare and some changes of a largely symbolic nature.· In fact, the measure has so many exceptions that some Republicans said its value is largely symbolic.· But to describe the bill as largely symbolic is not to diminish its importance.· The registry is largely symbolic and confers none of the legal rights and obligations of marriage.· Because Westminster retains responsibility for security, the vote was largely symbolic.
· Although largely unknown in Britain, Lafaille has an impressive rock climbing curriculum vitae.· But on the national level they are novices, limited specialists or largely unknown quantities.· He possesses non-physical properties and energies that are still largely unknown and uncharted by traditional science.· Rick Lazio, 42, a moderate from Long Island who is largely unknown statewide but carries little obvious baggage.· He was largely unknown to football when last June he was introduced to Edwards, the chairman and majority shareholder of United.· Tributes were largely unknown to Ford's injected Cologne V6, but it is a worthy enough trooper.· Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed.
VERB· Resistance, ill-organized, ill-informed and largely based on non-quantifiable attachment to place, has little effect.· But he conceded that it was a business based largely on commission.· The Prima Pasta operation is based largely within the radius of the M25.· Louis, Kerry Collins of Carolina is the choice, based largely on what he did against the 49ers last season.· This practice is based largely on the belief that intravenous heparin increases coronary artery patency rates.· Smith ties her transformation to a training program developed by de Bruin and based largely on track-and-field principles.· The theory of housing classes is based largely on subdivisions within these two main groups.· He argued that the international monetary system, based largely on the dollar, contained certain inherent contradictions.
· At a local level, Gloucester's changes were largely confined to filling gaps left by the removal of the Woodvilles.· Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall.· Polls suggest that cultural snobbery is largely confined to intellectuals.· The single-subject academic course is largely confined to the universities, reflecting their traditions of specialized scholarship and their stronger research orientation.· These institutions were concerned mainly with gymnastics and confined largely to women until after the Second World War.· Prior to 1914 divorce was largely confined to the middle and upper classes.· Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes.· A second advantage of the approach is that it is largely confined to observable empirical phenomena.
· They are about 8 microns in diameter and probably consist largely of chlorides, that is, of compounds containing chlorine.· Many of the pills and capsules which are sold to slimmers as appetite suppressants consist largely of methyl cellulose.· The diet of the red kite seems to consist largely of carrion and some birds.· A child's education may consist largely of the mastery of traditional skills to be done in a traditional way.· Miscellaneous assets largely consist of payments owed but not yet received from other banks.· For example, a site may consist largely of a number of postholes, all dating to the Neolithic period.
· On the degree of evaporation or reduction to which the tomatoes are subjected the flavour of the sauce very largely depends.· This one could depend largely on which Louisville shows up and whether Rutland can show up at all.· This depends largely on the quarantine situation.· The identification of a metamorphic rock depends largely on recognition of foliation and other textures.· Their development as a popular force largely depends on the musical direction they follow.· The differences in opinion depend largely on where economists look for evidence.· The response to this depends largely on your point of view.· The number of education administrators employed depends largely on State and local expenditures for education.
· This will be largely determined by whether you are right- or left-handed.· What he makes of this inheritance largely determines his place in history.· The progression is determined largely not by time sequence, but by other connections.· The greatest influence was, of course, the aptitude the student brought to school-something. determined largely by family background.· Choice of an expansion card, with a particular processor, will be determined largely by intended application for the device.· Invasion and metastasis largely determine the clinical course of colorectal carcinomas.· Thus, what was viewed as acceptable was determined largely by the centres' main client group - elderly disabled people.· On the one hand, there are those who have argued that this variation is largely determined by inherited potential.
· She would rage at the boys; they largely ignored her.· Forbes was largely ignored until he rose in the polls.· It seemed that our genuine concerns and grievances were largely ignored and we were dismissed as being out of date and out of touch.· The Dayton agreement already guarantees refugees the right to return home, but the provision has been largely ignored.· The debate on the role of the state has largely ignored the fact that state means more than government.· The great scholars also are largely ignored for their craft skills and precise goals in scholarship.· Most of these effects are simply curiosities for the network engineer and are largely ignored by the majority of designers.· The federal army in the South, in keeping with the 1877 Compromise, largely ignored instances of racial violence.
· A modern police force was established in the 1860s, but until 1906 it remained largely confined to urban areas.· But as an institution, Congress remains largely detached from foreign affairs.· And it did so in a way that allowed the traditional culture to remain largely intact.· Significantly, in certain cultural enclaves women remain largely unaffected by the work-family conflict.· The birds are still around, but remain largely aloof in the bushes.· Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed.· This comparison is possible because the list size remained largely unchanged over the two year study.· A component with a small value for D remains largely adsorbed on the stationary phase.
WORD FAMILYnounenlargementenlargeradjectivelargelargishverbenlargeadverblargely
mostly or mainly: The state of Nevada is largely desert. It had been a tiring day, largely because of all the tedious waiting.- Little Lord Fauntleroy
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