Synonyms for Primarily
praɪˈmɛər ə li, -ˈmɛr-, ˈpraɪ mɛr ə li, -mər ə-pri·mar·i·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, chiefly, principally, in the first place

   Antonyms:
   secondarily

2. primarily, in the first placeadverb

   of primary import

   "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter"

   Synonyms:
   in the beginning, primarily, originally, mainly, to begin with, in the main, earlier, chiefly, principally, in the first place

   Antonyms:
   secondarily

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1. List of paraphrases for "primarily":

   mainly, principally, essentially, mostly, predominantly, chiefly, largely, especially, basically, foremost, particularly, fundamentally, firstly, first, main, predominately, notably, principalement, principal

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1. John Casaretti:

   There's a need for what we do. We should be primarily an anti-terrorism group that does a finite job of detecting terrorists and working with anti-terrorism, i see no value in an air marshal simply sitting in a seat and bouncing back and forth from coast to coast for no other reason than he has to do something.

2. Scott Applewhite:

   The Washburn fire is a relatively small, very slow moving surface fire, burning mainly at low intensity in mild to moderate fire weather, including in dense forests with no forest management history and an abundance of live and dead trees, this underscores what John Muir Project and hundreds of scientists have been saying for years: it’s not primarily about the density of live or dead trees, it’s about the weather and climate, and climate change.

3. Garen Wintemute:

   We are having a national conversation about whether black lives matter, and one of the reasons we have not done a better job of preventing firearm violence is that we think – wrongly – that it primarily affects young black men, the data show that the societal burden of firearm violence falls predominately on older white men and involves primarily suicide, not homicide.

4. Chief Executive Denise Scots-Knight:

   Our strategy is to build, over time, a diverse portfolio, and having publicly traded shares will provide additional flexibility to secure the next product candidates, which are likely to be primarily sourced from large pharmaceutical companies.

5. Philip Armstrong:

   It’s primarily a tropical disease, and I think it will stay that way.