Largely

/ˈlɑːd͡ʒ.li/ · adverb

Meaning

In a widespread or large manner..

Definitions by Sense

1. In a widespread or large manner.
2. For the most part; mainly or chiefly.
3. On a large scale; amply.
4. (obsolete) Fully, at great length.

Example Sentences

She smiled at Aristide, who smiled at her, and Jean, seeing them happy, smiled largely at them both.

They were largely successful in their efforts.

Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.

Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.

But with the war also still largely stalemated, other theatres of conflict have become more important. In Russia’s case, that includes the secret domain.

Usually there was a jug of one or other decoction standing on the hob, from which he drank largely. "Grand!" he said, smacking his lips after wormwood. "Grand!" And he exhorted the children to try.

It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort, / Such as ye haue him boasted, to beguile / A simple mayd, and worke so haynous tort, / In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.

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Word Forms

• largelier
• more largely
• largeliest
• most largely

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