Synonym: above all, especially, mainly, mostly. Similar words: briefly, chief, chiefdom, mischief, handkerchief, chief of state, commander in chief, chief executive. Meaning: ['tʃiːflɪ] adv. for the most part.
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91. They are chiefly of Jewish parentage.
92. Patrick White's literary fame chiefly rests with his novels.
93. He then went on a buying spree abroad, chiefly in Eastern Europe.
94. A North American deciduous tree (Ulmus americana) having double serrate leaves and winged fruits. It is grown chiefly as an ornamental shade tree but often dies from Dutch elm disease.
95. A highly contagious tropical disease that chiefly affects children, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue and characterized by raspberrylike sores, especially on the hands, feet, and face.
96. Chiefly residential with a textile industry, it was the official capital of the Philippines from 1948 to 1976. Population, 1,165,865.
97. Any of various chiefly tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Hibiscus, having large, showy, variously colored flowers with numerous stamens united into a tube surrounding the style.
98. any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes.
99. The techniques commonly used in forecasting crude oil recoverable reserves chiefly consist of static empirical formula, water-flooding empirical formula.
100. In nature antimony occurs chiefly as the gray sulfide mineral stibnite, Sb2S3.
101. Chiefly, the Cupid's bow was reconstructed with full-thickness skin excision, and the vermilion deficiency repaired with the mucosal flap from the lower lip.
102. At that time some hundreds of bombs were dropped on industrial centres, chiefly in European Russia, Western Europe , and North America.
103. There are but two things that chiefly excite us to love woman, an attractive beauty and unspotted fame.
104. North Adelaide, which is chiefly residential , is bordered by more parklands, and contains two open squares.
105. Farcy:a chronic form of glanDers that affects chiefly the skin and superficial lymph vessels.
106. The electronic computer is chiefly characterized by accuracy and quick computation.
107. Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma.
108. First of all, an adjacency list should be established and its composition chiefly includes orientation, capacity, flux and so on.
109. He slurred over her faults and spoke chiefly of her merits.
110. Any of numerous tailless amphibians chiefly of the family Bufonidae, related to and resembling the frogs but characteristically more terrestrial and having a broader body and rougher, drier skin.
111. Tropes are chiefly of four kinds, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
112. In the intersts of renown the forwardness should lie chiefly in the capacity to handle things.
113. Sociologically unlike the philosopher is a person of some inherited wealth chiefly landed property but whose way of life will be urban.
114. In a very fast tempo, usually considered to be faster than allegro but slower than prestissimo. Used chiefly as a direction.
115. A hardy wheat ( Triticum turgidum , formerly T. durum ) used chiefly in making pasta.
116. Any of various large stinging wasps of the family Vespidae, chiefly of the genera Vespa and Vespula, that characteristically build large papery nests.
117. This paper is chiefly inquired into how to solve the bubble problem in solvent woodenware coating.
118. The ground fracture in Xi'an is a sort of unique city geologic hazard, its area of coverage pole expand, destructibility very strong,[http://sentencedict.com/chiefly.html] afterwards becoming a chiefly nature calamity of Xi'an.
119. My father's little library consisted chiefly of books polemic divinity, most of which I read.
120. Aphrodite was worshiped chiefly as the goddess of human love.
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