primarily Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb for the most part
    principally; in the main; mainly; chiefly.
    • he is mainly interested in butterflies
  2. adverb of primary import
    in the first place.
    • this is primarily a question of economics
    • it was in the first place a local matter

WordNet

Pri"ma*ri*ly adverb
Definitions
  1. In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.

Webster 1913