mostly

most·ly

for the most part
chiefly; principally
usually; generally

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mostly

adverb

For the greatest part; mainly.
Generally; usually.

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Adverb

(not comparable)

Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.
They're mostly good people, although they have made a few mistakes.

Origin

most +"Ž -ly.

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Sentence Examples

She kept mostly to her room.
He was mostly dead when we fished him out of the bay.
It was something she had always liked about him, mostly because he was sincere about it.
Those eyes were dark now, mostly because the pupils were large.
Mostly, I want to stop kids from what happened to the sister I don't know.

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