Entirely vs Largely - What's the difference?
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To the full or entire extent.
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In a widespread or large manner.
For the most part; mainly or chiefly.
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(obsolete) Fully, at great length.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
As adverbs the difference between entirely and largely
is that entirely is to the full or entire extent while largely is in a widespread or large manner.entirely
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Alternative forms
* entierly (chiefly archaic) * intirely (archaic or nonstandard)Adverb
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Synonyms
* (to the full extent) completely * (to the exclusion of others)Statistics
* English degree adverbslargely
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Adverb
(en-adv)- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
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- Usually there was a jug of one or other decoction standing on the hob, from which he drank largely .
- It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort, / Such as ye haue him boasted, to beguile / A simple mayd, and worke so haynous tort, / In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.