单词 | largely |
释义 | largely (once / 147 pages) adv Use the adverb largely to mean "mostly." You might say that you're largely pleased with the way your favorite baseball team played this season if they won more games than they lost. If a group art project was largely completed at your house, that means you primarily worked on it there, and when a once-popular novelist is largely forgotten, she's generally fallen out of favor with today's readers. Largely is a useful alternative to "mostly," "mainly," or "chiefly," and it comes from the adjective large, in Old French "broad, wide, or generous," from a Latin root, largus, "abundant, plentiful, bountiful, or liberal." WORD FAMILYlarge: enlarge, largely, largeness, larger, larges, largest, largish, overlarge+/enlarge: enlarged, enlargement, enlarger, enlarges, enlarging/enlargement: enlargements/enlarger: enlargers/largeness: largenesses/larger: largerly USAGE EXAMPLESMs. Bower is applying the same self-taught method that is largely how she approaches engraving. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) But these first steps will be largely symbolic while lawmakers debate the details of dismantling the healthcare law. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) Department of Defense saying in 2013 that the threat posed by the group was largely insignificant. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) 1adv in large part; mainly or chiefly These accounts are largely inactive Syn for the most part, mostly 2adv on a large scale the sketch was so largely drawn that you could see it from the back row |
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