mainly
/ˈmeɪnli
/adverb
1More than anything else: he is mainly concerned with fiction...
- Tangles were commonplace, mainly due to the fact that my rigs were shotted up wrong.
- Mr Atherton and his team were mainly concerned about the allegation of misconduct.
- Solar panels, now common even in the wilds, are used mainly to power dim tube lamps.
Synonyms
mostly, for the most part, in the main, on the whole, largely, by and large, to a large extent, to a great degree, predominantly, chiefly, principally;
generally, usually, typically, commonly, as a rule, on average
1.1For the most part: the west will be mainly dry...
- Her school in Walsall in the West Midlands serves a mainly working class community.
- I work on estates in Brent in west London which have a mainly black and Asian population.