Adverb

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Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.

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(obsolete) To the greatest extent; most.

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She was to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly prized [...]!

Adverb

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(informal) significantly; very, very much

* 1984, Joseph Westlund, Shakespeare's Reparative Comedies: A Psychoanalytic View of the Middle Plays , University of Chicago Press, Page 92

*:“Campus police break up parties routinely, but nobody really gets majorly busted.”

* 2000, Scholastic, Inc. Staff (eds), Diary of a Junior Year , Scholastic Paperbacks, Page 135

The thing is I am majorly stressing because I have no prom date set up.

* 2004, John Ringo & Julie Cochrane, Cally's War , Baen Books

The Taco Hell was okay the last time I tried it, but that was a few months ago when I was majorly low on cash.

* 2005, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-grade Social Climber , Graphia Books, Page 173

*:“Mimi, here’s the thing. When somebody in that crowd goes and does something majorly out of control like that, it’s only a matter of days before the rest of the girls in school make sure they've caught up. [...]”

mostly, primarily

* 1930, American Orthopsychiatric Association, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry , American Orthopsychiatric Association, Page 634

Significant contrasts can be drawn between the course of personality development in which children are majorly reared by grandparents who have [...]

* 1963, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) and British Economic Association, The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journey of the British Economic Association , Macmillan, Page 686

This is due not solely, or even majorly, to the fact the above type of analysis concerns itself primarily with what will happen in the long run.

* 2000, Bernard F. Feldman, Joseph G. Zinkl, Nemi C. Jain (eds), Schalm's Veterinary Hematology , Blackwell Publishing, Page 260

This chapter is majorly devoted to the primary immunodeficiencies that have been documented in domestic animals.