largely

Etymology

large + -ly

adv

  1. In a widespread or large manner.
    She smiled at Aristide, who smiled at her, and Jean, seeing them happy, smiled largely at them both. 1924, William John Locke, The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
  2. For the most part; mainly or chiefly.
    They were largely successful in their efforts.
    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. 2013-06-22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
  3. On a large scale; amply.
  4. (obsolete) Fully, at great length.

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