Mostly and Really

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Mostly adverb - For the most part.

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Really and mostly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Really" instead an adverb "Mostly".

Nearby Word: most

Really adverb - In actual fact.

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Mostly and really are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mostly" instead an adverb "Really".

Nearby Words: realize, real, reality, realistic, realization

In Tales of the Abyss, Dist is not actually this to Jade, but Jade likes to pretend he is - mostly because it really, really annoys Dist, which Jade clearly finds hilarious.

Source: Unknown Rival
The planet Akir in Battle Beyond the Stars verges on this, although it appears to be mostly because they're really, really poor rather than any particular desire to live the simple, agrarian life.

Source: Space Amish
Team Galactic are rather well-known and wear typical "space-traveler" uniforms, gray and blue and really make no effort to hide themselves (they've got extremely villainous buildings just standing there in the middle of goddamn cities) and are mostly ignored due to Apathetic Citizens.

Source: Highly Conspicuous Uniform

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