Synonyms for chiefly
ˈtʃif lichief·ly

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1. chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the mainadverb

   for the most part

   "he is mainly interested in butterflies"

   Synonyms:
   primarily, generally, mainly, in general, in the main, principally, in the first place

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1. chieflyadjective

   Synonyms:
   principally, eminently, mainly, especially, particularly, above all

2. chieflyadjective

   Synonyms:
   mostly, for the most part

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1. List of paraphrases for "chiefly":

   mainly, primarily, principally, mostly, essentially, predominantly, especially, largely, particularly

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1. Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922:

   [S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

2. Lee Hardman:

   Still the focus is on increasing concerns over slowing growth in a number of emerging economies, chiefly China. And within the G10 currencies, the Aussie and New Zealand dollars are the proxies for that, the majors are still fairly trendless.

3. Henry Fielding:

   It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

4. Socrates:

   I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

5. Margaret Oliphant Oliphant:

   It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.