mostlyadverb
uk/ˈməʊst.li/us/ˈmoʊst.li/B1 mainly:
In the smaller towns, it's mostly (= usually) very quiet at nights.
The band are mostly (= most of them are) teenagers.
More examples
- Shakespeare wrote mostly in verse.
- After leaving school, she spent a year travelling, mostly in Africa and Asia.
- The disease mostly affects people over 50, causing paralysis and uncontrollable tremors.
- The accident victims mostly had injuries to their lower limbs.
- Our fellow travellers were mostly Spanish-speaking tourists.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
General
- abstract
- abstraction
- abstractly
- across-the-board
- all-purpose
- board
- generalist
- generally
- helicopter view
- impressionistic
- in all idiom
- large
- principle
- sense
- simply
- substantially
- the big/bigger picture idiom
- thing
- whole
- widely
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