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  • 1. principally
  • Rhymes with Principally
  • Principally in a sentence
  • Quotes about Principally
Table of Contents
  • 1. principally
  • Rhymes with Principally
  • Principally in a sentence
  • Quotes about Principally
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology

1. principally

adverb. ['ˈprɪnsɪpli'] for the most part.

Synonyms

  • chiefly
  • mainly
  • primarily

Antonyms

  • secondarily

Etymology

  • -ly (English)
  • -lice (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
  • principal (English)
  • principalis (Latin)

Rhymes with Principally

  • municipally
  • promptly
  • shapely
  • sharply
  • simply

Sentences with principally


1. Adverb
Deciduous forests are found all over the world, though they are located principally in the Northern Hemisphere.

Quotes about principally


1. Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
- Joseph Conrad, Chance

2. Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
- Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

3. Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
- Shunryu Suzuki

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