largelyadverb
uk/ˈlɑːdʒ.li/us/ˈlɑːrdʒ.li/B2 almost completely:
a largely male company
Their complaints have been largely ignored.
Until recently the civil war had been largely unreported in the press.
More examples
- The west of the city was largely unaffected by the bombing.
- The success of almost any project depends largely on its manager.
- Choosing furniture is largely a matter of personal preference.
- The audience was composed largely of young people.
- Their victory was largely a result of their brilliantly orchestrated election campaign.
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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