[
UK
/lˈɑːdʒli/
]
[ US /ˈɫɑɹdʒɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɑɹdʒɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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on a large scale
the sketch was so largely drawn that you could see it from the back row -
in large part; mainly or chiefly
These accounts are largely inactive
How To Use largely In A Sentence
- The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
- Largely ignored by those same trekkers just a couple of hundred miles away on the equator lies Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak and arguably its most beautiful. Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya -- Is This the Most Beautiful Mountain in Africa?
- ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
- In any event, when making a case against the indivisibility of Sinitic, it is not necessary to rebut each of these "common" features individually, since they are largely or wholly extralinguistic. Language Log
- The wood pewee, like its relative, the phoebe, feeds largely on the family of flies to which the house fly belongs. Bird Day; How to prepare for it
- In 1915 he published another volume of verse, Youth, which passed largely unregarded.
- More nuanced music suffered, largely due to the tonearm. Times, Sunday Times
- The unicity is run by Johannesburg's first-ever executive mayor - previously the mayor was a largely ceremonial position.
- Aerogels had been largely forgotten when, in the late 1970s, the French government approached Stanislaus Teichner at Universite Claud Bernard, Lyon seeking a method for storing oxygen and rocket fuels in porous materials. A Real Spinoff that NASA Has Seemingly Forgotten About - NASA Watch
- Largely he was happy in his perfectly toned sepia world. Times, Sunday Times