Largely

Pronunciation

• enPR: lärjʹ-li, IPA: /ˈlÉ‘rdÊ’li/
• AU IPA: ˈlaːdÊ’.li
• UK IPA: ˈlɑːdÊ’.li
• US IPA: ˈlɑɹdÊ’.li
• Hyphenation: large + ly

Origin

large + -ly

Full definition of largely

Adverb

1. In a widespread or large manner.
2. For the most part; mainly or chiefly.
• Schuster Hepaticae V|viiHerbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
• 2013-06-22, T time, Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard … shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: …. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
3. They were largely successful in their efforts.
4. On a large scale; amply.
• 1913, D. H. Lawrence, ,Usually there was a jug of one or other decoction standing on the hob, from which he drank largely."Grand!" he said, smacking his lips after wormwood. "Grand!" And he exhorted the children to try.
5. (obsolete) Fully, at great length.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort,
  Such as ye haue him boasted, to beguile
  A simple mayd, and worke so haynous tort,
  In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.

Anagrams

• allergy
• gallery
• regally