PRIMARILY

adv. 1 principally, mainly, chiefly, especially, at bottom, particularly, first of all, pre-eminently, basically, essentially, fundamentally, on the whole, for the most part, mostly, predominantly or predominately, generally The rain in Spain falls primarily in the plain 2 initially, originally, from or at the start, first (and foremost, in the first instance, ab initio The colonists, primarily refugees from England, began to settle the New World in the 17th century