primarilyadverb
uk/praɪˈmer.əl.i/us/praɪˈmer.əl.i/B2 mainly:
We're primarily concerned with keeping expenditure down.
Baseball is primarily a summer game.
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- The new scheme is aimed primarily at teenagers.
- a course designed primarily for experts
- We moved to Scotland primarily because we wanted to be nearer to my family.
- This is a controversial procedure, primarily because of known side-effects.
- We live in a society which views success primarily in terms of material possessions.
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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