Scientists deal mainly with physical matters.
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Mainly
Synonyms for "mainly" (108 found)
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Strong matches (32)
Related words (54)
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3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 35 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- غَالِبًا adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Bashkir
1 entries- башлыса adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Belarusian
1 entries- гало́ўным чы́нам adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Bulgarian
1 entries- главно adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Catalan
1 entries- principalment adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 主要地 adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Dutch
1 entries- voornamelijk adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Esperanto
2 entries- precipe adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- ĉefe adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Estonian
3 entries- peaasjalikult adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- peamiselt adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- põhiliselt adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Finnish
4 entries- enimmäkseen adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- etupäässä adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- lähinnä adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- pitkälti adv (chiefly; for the most part)
French
2 entries- principalement adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- surtout adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Galician
3 entries- basicamente adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- fundamentalmente adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- principalmente adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Georgian
1 entries- ძირითადად adv (chiefly; for the most part)
German
1 entries- hauptsächlich adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Greek
1 entries- κυρίως adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Hebrew
1 entries- בעיקר \ בְּעִקָּר adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Hindi
1 entries- मुख्यतः adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Hungarian
1 entries- főleg adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Italian
2 entries- principalmente adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- sostanzialmente adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Japanese
2 entries- おもに adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- 主に adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Korean
1 entries- 주로 adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Norman
1 entries- prîncipalement adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- hovedsakelig adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- overveiende adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- hovudsakleg adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Occitan
1 entries- principalament adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- hauptsechlich adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Polish
1 entries- głównie adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Portuguese
1 entries- principalmente adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Romanian
3 entries- mai ales adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- mai cu seamă adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- îndeosebi adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Russian
2 entries- в основно́м adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- гла́вным о́бразом adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Spanish
4 entries- mayormente adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- máximamente adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- máxime adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- principalmente adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Swedish
1 entries- huvudsakligen adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Ukrainian
3 entries- го́ловно adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- головни́м чи́ном adv (chiefly; for the most part)
- перева́жно adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Volapük
1 entries- ledino adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Yiddish
1 entries- דער עיקר adv (chiefly; for the most part)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Fork-users are mainly in Europe, North America, and Latin America; chopstick-users in eastern Asia and finger-users in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and India.
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Most college students use computers mainly for writing papers.
Source: tatoeba (41175)
The party is mainly made up of working women.
Source: tatoeba (44778)
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