BROADLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broadly mean? 

• BROADLY (adverb)
  The adverb BROADLY has 2 senses:

1. without regard to specific details or exceptions

2. in a wide fashion

  Familiarity information: BROADLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROADLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without regard to specific details or exceptions

Synonyms:

broadly; broadly speaking; generally; loosely

Context example:

he interprets the law broadly

Antonym:

narrowly (in a narrow manner; not allowing for exceptions)

Pertainym:

broad (not detailed or specific)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a wide fashion

Context example:

he smiled broadly

Pertainym:

broad (having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other)

 Context examples 

The term is often used broadly to include injuries, disabilities, syndromes, symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function.

(Disease or Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

The fourth reading frame has been called the X gene and produces HBx protein that is essential for viral replication in liver cells and acts broadly to activate a variety of transcription factors.

(HBx Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Broadly, this information falls into four categories: gene function, proteomic pathways, ePosters, and research reagents.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)

PD-L1 is expressed broadly on hematopoietic and parenchymal tissues; PD-1, a transmembrane protein, is a negative regulator of the immune system that limits the expansion and survival of CD8+ T cells.

(Anti-PD-L1 Monoclonal Antibody MDX-1105, NCI Thesaurus)

He wanted her to look up and smile; and having now brought herself not to smile too broadly—she did—cheerfully answering, You need not be at any pains to reconcile me to the match.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Although this enzyme is broadly expressed, lactose production only occurs in mammary glands.

(Lactose Synthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It may be broadly classified as a psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition.

(Organic Delusional Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Thus God hath written Himself and His laws very broadly on all that is around us, if our poor dull eyes and duller souls could but read what He hath set before us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The branch of surgery broadly concerned with the skeletal system (bones and joints).

(Orthopedics, NCI Thesaurus)