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in general

ADVERB
chiefly
Synonyms
STRONGEST
especially essentially largely mostly predominantly principally
STRONG
mainly primarily
WEAK
above all in the first place in the main on the whole overall usually
Antonyms
WEAK
unimportantly
ADVERB
mainly
Synonyms
STRONG
chiefly primarily principally
WEAK
above all essentially first and foremost generally in the main largely most of all mostly on the whole overall predominantly substantially to the greatest extent usually
Antonyms
STRONG
secondarily
ADVERB
ordinarily
Synonyms
STRONGEST
commonly customarily generally normally regularly
WEAK
as a rule frequently habitually
Antonyms
STRONGEST
rarely
WEAK
infrequently sometimes
DETERMINER
any
Synonyms
STRONGEST
all each either several
WEAK
a bit a little each and every part of whatever
PREPOSITION
about
Synonyms
STRONGEST
almost nearly roughly
STRONG
approximately
WEAK
in the ball park in the neighborhood practically pretty nearly
Antonyms
WEAK
afar away distant far remote

Example Sentences

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I also think that the surrounding rhetoric, the temper of the times that we live in, really matters, you know, that judges in general have always been treated with a certain amount of respect.

From Slate • May 12, 2026

Residents of Tenerife, and the Canary Islands in general, had expressed concern about the cruise stopping there.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

We talk about the digital revolution in general, or AI in particular with this fight about safetyism versus accelerationism, jobs apocalypse versus a lot of jobs that are going to be created.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

White working-class and precarious middle-class voters were alarmed not only at the upending of the racial caste system but also at what they saw as an unraveling of society in general.

From Salon • May 6, 2026

"I don't know. He thinks it was me. Not the show in general."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway