Mostly means for the greater part — not all of it, but close. The audience was mostly children, the fridge is mostly empty, I mostly cycle to work.
It does two jobs. One is proportion: the crowd was mostly students tells you what the bulk of it was made of. The other is habit, so I mostly eat at home means most of the time rather than every time. It goes before the main verb but after am, is and are — she is mostly at home on Fridays. Do not swap it for most, which stands in front of a noun: most people agree, never mostly people agree. In Indian English it carries a third sense, probably, borrowed from local languages, as in he'll mostly come tomorrow.
1adverbmostlyFor the greater part; mainly.~82%
“The soup is mostly potato.”
synonyms: mainly, chiefly, largely
2adverbtimeMost of the time.~16%
“We mostly meet on Thursdays.”
3adverbprobablyProbably, in Indian English.~2%
“She will mostly be at the office by nine.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 25 sentences found in the wild and placed 25 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Also accepted in games: mainly
From most + -ly. The sense “probably” is a calque from Indian languages such as அனேகமாக.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA