Synonyms:
chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in_the_main
Meaning: for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies"
Usage examples
For what is principally intended by God in creatures is good, and this consists in assimilation to God Himself.
Ralph Hoskin was very poor: his pathetic pictures did not find many purchasers, and he lived principally by teaching.
I found that these mysterious personages, whom I had mistaken for magi, were principally authors, and were in the very act of manufacturing books.
Her husband supplied the Latin names and the descriptions of the plants, which were taken principally from Miller's "Botanicum Officinale," with the author's permission.
Rat-catching is only just one degree better, and principally enjoyed by cats who have not reached maturity in body and intellect--cats, in fact, in their hobble-de-hoy-hood.
By some fatality, principally no doubt because of the interest they excited, every discovery he published was the signal for an outburst of criticism and sometimes of attack.
For after these there were no navies of any account in Hellas till the expedition of Xerxes; Aegina, Athens, and others may have possessed a few vessels, but they were principally fifty-oars.
Those of the direct kind, which principally relate to land and buildings, may admit of a rule of apportionment. Either the value of land, or the number of the people, may serve as a standard.
We will only note that the point principally insisted upon in the examination was the question of the three thousand roubles, that is, was the sum spent here, at Mokroe, by Mitya on the first occasion, a month before, three thousand or fifteen hundred?
Two inferences, however, were plainly deduced from the whole: one, that Elizabeth was the real cause of the mischief; and the other that she herself had been barbarously misused by them all; and on these two points she principally dwelt during the rest of the day.