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moastly

moastly is the obsolete form of mostly.

Meaning of mostly

Adverb

mostly (not comparable)

  1. Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.
    • They're mostly good people, although they have made a few mistakes.
  2. (obsolete) To the greatest extent; most.
    • She was to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly prized [...]!1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817...
  3. (India, proscribed) Synonym of probably, likely.
    Synonyms:
    probably, likely

Origin of moastly

From moast + -ly.

Questions about moastly

What is moastly the obsolete form of?
Moastly is the obsolete form of mostly.

Words near moastly in the dictionary

  1. moar
  2. Moara
  3. moas
  4. MOASS
  5. moast
  6. moastly
  7. moat
  8. moated
  9. moating
  10. moatlike
  11. moats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moastly (page history and authors); mostly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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