principally
The new scheme is aimed primarily at teenagers.
a course designed primarily for experts
We moved to Scotland primarily because we wanted to be nearer to my family.
This is a controversial procedure, primarily because of known side-effects.
We live in a society which views success primarily in terms of material possessions.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

General
abstract
abstraction
abstractly
across-the-board
all-purpose
broad
broadness
by and largeidiom
chiefly
coarse-grained
essence
general
literally
mostly
nomothetic
non-personal
on the wholeidiom
overall
sense
whole

primarily | American Dictionary

primarily
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/prɑɪˈmeər·ə·li, prɑɪˈmer·ə·li/
mainly:
The company’s failure was primarily due to weak sales.

Examples of primarily

primarily
There is also a witnesses' room with separate access to the court - a last-minute addition to the plans, primarily intended for women.
The cost of replacing carbon by growing trees is so high primarily because of the opportunity costs of foregoing agricultural production on prime cropland.
This is because vowels in both primarily and secondarily stressed syllables are rendered strong and not weakened.
Ultimately the genre survives in the twenty-first century primarily in our university choruses and local choral societies.
She took this decision primarily based on moralistic ground.
In other words, the theoretical background is primarily based on processual history.
The students worked primarily in the multitrack window, to organise their story-line.
Many of the children are primarily suffering from exposure to violence and remain traumatized.
Thus, the switch to defined contributions is primarily a cost-cutting exercise.
The competition was detrimental primarily to the cacao trees.
They are mainly non-verbal and all three are primarily concerned with the experience of playing.
If recognition and identification are carried out primarily by the ventral system, using long-term memory, what is it that is recognized and identified?
It is an intensive group therapy programme that is primarily directed at the normalization of eating and the restoration of body weight.
Were this applause directed to the cast alone, then the report would be of interest primarily in the history of performance.
Modals perform more or less the same task, differing primarily in the interpretation assigned to the grounding relation.
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