largely

UK/ˈlɑːd͡ʒ.li/US/ˈlɑɹd͡ʒ.li/

adverbB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,539 of 15,258mostly written

Largely means for the most part. Largely unchanged, largely due to the weather, largely ignored.

It admits exceptions without naming them, which is what makes it useful and what makes it worth watching: largely unchanged means something changed. It is a hedge, and careful writing says how much rather than leaving the word to do it.

Definitions of largely

1adverblargelyFor the most part.B2
“The town was largely destroyed in the war, but the old church survived.”

largely is a degree.

Where it comes from

From large + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

largely in the wild

MathWorld is an online mathematics reference work, created and largely written by Eric W.
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The series was female-run, and segments were largely directed by women.
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In 2018, HBO began removing the show from its streaming services HBO GO and HBO Now, along with similar series Cathouse and Taxicab Confessions, making them largely unavailable.
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However, its vocabulary is largely Papuan, similar to that of Makasae.
Waimoa language
Bharati braille, or Bharatiya Braille, is a largely unified braille script for writing the languages of India.
Bharati Braille

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