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primarily
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial primarily has 2 senses
- primarily(r = adv.all) chiefly, in the main, mainly, principally - for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies"
- primarily(r = adv.all) in the first place - of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter" Antonym: secondarily
CIDE DICTIONARY
primarily, adv.
In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
primarily
a fortiori, ab initio, ab ovo, aborigine, above all, all the more, at bottom, at first, at heart, at the core, at the start, au fond, basically, before everything, chiefly, dominantly, especially, essentially, even, ever so, first, first and foremost, first of all, first thing, firstly, from the beginning, fundamentally, generally, in chief, in essence, in itself, in substance, in the beginning, in the main, indeed, initially, largely, mainly, materially, more than ever, mostly, never so, no end, on the whole, originally, overall, particularly, peculiarly, per se, predominantly, primitively, primo, principally, still more, substantially, yea
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