Generally
Overall
Overall adverb - With everyone or everything taken into account at the same time.
Usage example: reduce the budget overall by 15 percent
Generally is a synonym for overall in in general topic. You can use "Generally" instead an adverb "Overall".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- largely and generally
- largely and overall
- regularly and generally
- regularly and overall
- altogether and generally
- altogether and overall
- primarily and generally
- primarily and overall
- basically and generally
- basically and overall
- chiefly and generally
- chiefly and overall
- mainly and generally
- mainly and overall
Both words in one sentence
- It's generally accepted that blur's debut Leisure has its moments, but is overall a rather patchy late-"baggy" era album.
Source: Surprisingly Improved Sequel -
The subversion is that the weapons with the best overall stats are generally the default ones you start the game with, and nothing you can unlock absolutely obsoletes anything that came earlier.
Source: Video Game / Rainbow Six -
Yes they suffered losses from time to time, but generally did pretty well overall.
Source: Awesome Aussie
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