Crossword-Solution: CHIEFLY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chiefly | adv. | In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially. |
| Chiefly | adv. | For the most part; mostly. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CHIEFLY | anagram | CHIFLEY |
We have 41 clues for the answer “CHIEFLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| predominantly | 7 answers |
| First and foremost | 7 answers |
| In the main | 11 answers |
| "On the whole . . ." | 12 answers |
| ABOVE all | 13 answers |
| specially | 15 answers |
| Primarily | 16 answers |
| firstly | 17 answers |
| Principally | 17 answers |
| In the beginning | 19 answers |
| before anything else | 21 answers |
| Funda-mentally | 21 answers |
| FOR the most part | 21 answers |
| particularly | 22 answers |
| AU fond | 22 answers |
| Especially | 23 answers |
| in essence | 23 answers |
| Essentially | 23 answers |
| Chiefly | 24 answers |
| AT heart | 24 answers |
| Mostly | 27 answers |
| Mainly | 30 answers |
| Up front | 34 answers |
| Largely. | 40 answers |
| Basically | 42 answers |
| As a matter of fact ... | 44 answers |
| notably | 48 answers |
| AT FIRST ___ | 49 answers |
| IN plain English | 49 answers |
| radically | 51 answers |
| In Reality | 56 answers |
| in truth | 56 answers |
| IN actuality | 57 answers |
| In other words | 60 answers |
| exceptionally | 61 answers |
| In the first Place | 66 answers |
| Generally | 67 answers |
| IN detail | 69 answers |
| Much | 74 answers |
| BY the book | 75 answers |
| Extremely | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHIEFLY (5)
The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all.
And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th’ upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know’st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad’st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert th’ Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes of God to men.
For this purpose, they divided the term of his life between them, and each endowed one portion of it with the qualities which chiefly characterized himself.
Poorgrass, thus assured, trilled forth a flickering yet commendable piece of sentiment, the tune of which consisted of the key-note and another, the latter being the sound chiefly dwelt upon.
Additions were made to it by Brandt and Waldis in Germany, by L’Estrange in England, and by La Fontaine in France; these were chiefly from the larger Greek collections published after Stainhöwel’s day, and, in the case of La Fontaine, from Bidpai and other Oriental sources.
Quotes with CHIEFLY (3)
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.
destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time, which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which [God] has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with …
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Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1981–2025).