LARGELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does largely mean? 

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

1. in large part; mainly or chiefly

2. on a large scale

  Familiarity information: LARGELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARGELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In large part; mainly or chiefly

Synonyms:

for the most part; largely; mostly

Context example:

These accounts are largely inactive

Sense 2

Meaning:

On a large scale

Context example:

the sketch was so largely drawn that you could see it from the back row

 Context examples 

For those reasons, previous studies on placental transport have relied largely on animal models and on laboratory-grown human cells.

(Researchers design placenta-on-a-chip to better understand pregnancy, NIH)

It has little significant energy value as it is largely eliminated from the body before any metabolism can take place.

(Mannitol, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The molecular mechanisms by which adult liver cells trigger the regenerative response, and how this fails in chronic liver disease, remain largely unknown.

(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)

Although the exact mechanism(s) of action of OKN007 are still largely unknown, this agent appears to inhibit cancer cell proliferation and migration.

(PBN Derivative OKN-007, NCI Thesaurus)

Further, the new findings show how ocean currents were largely responsible for redistributing the heat between the Northern and Southern hemispheres in a process called the bipolar seesaw.

(Antarctic ice core reveals how sudden climate changes in North Atlantic moved south, NSF)

What little of worth resides in their brains is largely due to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Current TB treatment takes six months, largely to outlast the persisters.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

Citizen scientists scanning images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an orbiting infra-red observatory, recently stumbled upon a new class of curiosities that had gone largely unrecognized before: yellow balls.

(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)

Until now, these nematode-associated bacteria and the antibiotics they make have been largely understudied.

(A New Class of Antibiotics to Combat Drug Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The mechanism of action through which nefopam exerts its analgesic effects is, as of yet, largely unknown but may involve inhibition of serotonin, dopamine and noradrenaline reuptake.

(Nefopam Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)