PRINCIPALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does principally mean? 

• PRINCIPALLY (adverb)
  The adverb PRINCIPALLY has 1 sense:

1. for the most part

  Familiarity information: PRINCIPALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRINCIPALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For the most part

Synonyms:

chiefly; in the main; mainly; primarily; principally

Context example:

he is mainly interested in butterflies

Pertainym:

principal (most important element)

 Context examples 

Seen most commonly following bone marrow transplantation, acute disease is seen after 5-40 days and chronic disease weeks to months after transplantation, affecting, principally, the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and skin.

(Graft Versus Host Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

We were principally in town, living in very good style.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But his case was deferred to next day, principally for the reason that I did not know anything about broken ribs and would first have to read it up.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Good heavens, it is principally because I AM among friends that my state of mind is what it is.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Exactly so; that is what principally strikes me.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

These antibiotics inhibit the cell wall structure of susceptible organisms (principally Gram-positive cocci) by inhibiting peptidoglycan synthesis.

(Glycopeptide Antibiotic, NCI Thesaurus)

As it principally concerns yourself, you ought to know its contents.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Peptides containing phosphoryl group substituents on the R groups of amino acids, principally serine, threonine, and tyrosine.

(Phosphorylated Peptide, NCI Thesaurus)

She had opposed his writing, and principally, it seemed to him, because it did not earn money.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)