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Partially vs Largely - What's the difference?

partially | largely |

As adverbs the difference between partially and largely

is that partially is to a partial degree or extent, incompletely while largely is in a widespread or large manner.

partially

English

Adverb

(-)
  • To a partial degree or extent, incompletely.
  • largely

    English

    Adverb

    (en-adv)
  • In a widespread or large manner.
  • For the most part; mainly or chiefly.
  • *
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= T time , passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
  • On a large scale; amply.
  • * 1913 ,
  • Usually there was a jug of one or other decoction standing on the hob, from which he drank largely .
  • *:"Grand!" he said, smacking his lips after wormwood. "Grand!" And he exhorted the children to try.
  • (obsolete) Fully, at great length.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
  • 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.

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