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majorly

majorly adverb: significantly; very, very much.

Adverb

majorly (not comparable)

  1. (informal) significantly; very, very much
    • Campus police break up parties routinely, but nobody really gets majorly busted.1984, Joseph Westlund, Shakespeare's Reparative Comedies: A Psychoanalytic View of the Middle Plays, University of Chicago Press, Page 92
    • The thing is I am majorly stressing because I have no prom date set up.2000, Scholastic, Inc. Staff (eds), Diary of a Junior Year, Scholastic Paperbacks, Page 135
  2. mostly, primarily
    • Significant contrasts can be drawn between the course of personality development in which children are majorly reared by grandparents who have …1930, American Orthopsychiatric Association, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Page 634
    • This is due not solely, or even majorly, to the fact the above type of analysis concerns itself primarily with what will happen in the long run.1963, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) and British Economic Association, The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journey of the British Economic Association, Macmillan, Page 686

Examples of majorly in a sentence

  • When somebody in that crowd goes and does something majorly out of control like that, it’s only a matter of days before the rest of the girls in school make sure they've caught up. …”2005, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-grade Social Climber, Graphia Books, Page 173
  • This chapter is majorly devoted to the primary immunodeficiencies that have been documented in domestic animals.2000, Bernard F. Feldman, Joseph G. Zinkl, Nemi C. Jain (eds), Schalm's Veterinary Hematology, Blackwell Publishing, Page 260

Synonyms of majorly

Origin of majorly

From major + -ly.

Questions about majorly

What does majorly mean?
Majorly means significantly; very, very much.
How do you use majorly in a sentence?
When somebody in that crowd goes and does something majorly out of control like that, it’s only a matter of days before the rest of the girls in school make sure they've caught up. …”
What part of speech is majorly?
Majorly is an adverb.

Words near majorly in the dictionary

  1. majorized
  2. majorizer
  3. majorizers
  4. majorizes
  5. majorizing
  6. majorly
  7. majoron
  8. majoronic
  9. majorons
  10. majors
  11. Majors Creek

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