Synonyms:
chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in_the_main
Meaning: for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies"
Usage examples
The dualism is not primarily as to the stuff of the world, but as to causal laws.
The workman's food is to gratify his hunger, primarily; not merely to make him a better working machine.
A little way off to the left was the great bunker which, primarily, was the cause of their present amity.
Above all the globe is at unity with itself; the cross is primarily and above all things at enmity with itself.
Progress, population, prosperity, are not primarily conditioned on their amount; limitation will be felt far earlier elsewhere.
Two conclusions important for education follow. (1) Experience is primarily an active-passive affair; it is not primarily cognitive.
They sold many things besides coffee, and served a variety of purposes, but primarily they were temples of talk and good-fellowship.
Therefore this principle by which we primarily understand, whether it be called the intellect or the intellectual soul, is the form of the body.
Primarily I took it because I liked it. Play should never be allowed to interfere with work; and a life devoted merely to play is, of all forms of existence, the most dismal.
Our aim in this campaign was primarily to call to the attention of the public the bad suffrage record of the Democratic Party. The effect of our campaign was soon evident in Congress.