Usually means: Primarily, but not entirely complete.
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  1. mostly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mostly: Merriam-Webster
  3. mostly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mostly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mostly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mostly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mostly, mostly: Wordnik
  8. mostly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mostly: Wiktionary
  10. mostly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mostly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mostly: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mostly, mostly: Dictionary.com
  14. mostly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mostly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mostly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mostly: Rhymezone
  18. mostly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mostly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. mostly: FreeDictionary.org
  21. mostly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. mostly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mostly: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mostly: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mostly)

▸ adverb:  Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) To the greatest extent; most.

Similar:
by and large, for the most part, generally, more often than not, largely, mainly, primarily, predominantly, predominately, principally, more...

Opposite:
rarely, seldom, infrequently, occasionally, hardly

Types:
water, ice, vapor, more...

Phrases:
mostly sunny, Mostly Harmless, Mostly Autumn, Mostly Ghostly, graceful but mostly bygone street liner, more...

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     ecru,     off-white,     cream, more...



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Similar:
by and large, for the most part, generally, more often than not, largely, mainly, primarily, predominantly, predominately, principally, more...

Opposite:
rarely, seldom, infrequently, occasionally, hardly

Types:
water, ice, vapor, more...

Phrases:
mostly sunny, Mostly Harmless, Mostly Autumn, Mostly Ghostly, graceful but mostly bygone street liner, mostly vulgar in the van, mostly empty, mostly made of, relies on mostly deep results, mostly relevant, more...

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     ecru,     off-white,     cream, more...



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