Broadly and Especially

Broadly

Broadly adverb - To a large extent or degree.

Especially is an antonym for broadly.

Nearby Words: broad, broaden, broadness

Especially

Especially adverb - In the specific case of one person or thing as distinguished from others.
Usage example: all employees, but especially the administrative assistants, will need to learn to use the new phone system

Broadly is an antonym for especially in exceptionally topic.

Nearby Word: especial

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Stop Making Sense And then there's the music itself, which is, broadly speaking, New Wave, but with a host of other influences, especially funk.
  • Broadly speaking, however, all the X-Men got a plotline to themselves at some point; the comics especially used rotating arcs.
  • Useful Notes / Saudi Arabia The Saudis and a lot of Sunni Arab states- especially the GCC- regard expansion by the Revolutionary Shiite Iranian government as a threat to the conservative Sunni hegemony in the Gulf and broadly the Muslim world.
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