broadly
- adverb
- /ˈbrɔːdli/
- Peri-urbanization broadly refers to a landscape interface that exists between city and countryside.
- broadly defined
- more broadly
- broadly based
This system, despite it's many problems, did keep global trade broadly balanced.
- This system, despite it's many problems, did keep global trade broadly balanced.
- It was the black Sambo beggar, always grinning broadly with those white teeth and a big red lips.
- I like to dig in deeply and and, and broadly and, and to enter that realm of the unpublished.
- That phrase is almost always construed far too broadly.
Examples
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The novel was appreciated broadly, appealing to a wide range of readers.
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Since joining the EU, trade as a percentage of GDP has broadly stagnated in the UK.
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Once you know the way, broadly, you will see it in everything.
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I think we can see broadly where we need to go.
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So you are broadly in control.
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When prices go down broadly, it leads to unemployment.
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This system, despite it's many problems, did keep global trade broadly balanced.
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The scope of the problem in developing countries more broadly should not be underestimated.
Academic text (2017) -
Through successes and strains, our ties have broadly endured.
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Gaston withdrew, smiling broadly and bowing to the cheers of the crowd.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
In many places or by many people
In a way that covers a large area or includes many parts
To a large degree
In an open, warm, and excited way
To say something is true in general
In a broad way that affects many people or things
In a general way without details
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Etymology
Broadly comes from the old English word broad, which meant 'wide' or 'large', the same idea you see in broadband or a broad street. So when something happens broadly it happens in a wide or extensive way.