mostly — Dictionnaire anglais

Adverbe

1. Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Exemples

   They're mostly good people, although they have made a few mistakes.

   Plus d’exemples (1)

   Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

2. To the greatest extent; most.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • désuet

   Exemples

   She was to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly prized [...]!

3. Synonym of probably, likely.

   Usage

   • India
   • not-comparable
   • proscribed

Adverbe

1. in large part; mainly or chiefly

   Synonymes

   largelyfor the most part

   Exemples

   These accounts are largely inactive

2. usually; as a rule

   Synonymes

   by and largegenerallymore often than not

   Exemples

   by and large it doesn't rain much here