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broadly

adv
/ˈbɹɔːd.li/UK/ˈbɹɔd.li/US/ˈbɹɑd.li/

Etymology

From broad + -ly.

  1. inherited from *braidaz✻ — “broad, wide”
  2. inherited from *braid✻
  3. inherited from brād — “broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”
  4. inherited from brood
  5. formed as broadly — “broad + -ly”

Definitions

  1. Widely and openly.

    • [W]hen he caught sight of her running towards him like that, he smiled broadly.

  2. Broadly speaking

    Broadly speaking; in a wide manner; liberally; in a loose sense.

    • That’s broadly consistent with the Real Clear Politics average of all general election matchups between the two; RCP shows Biden with an average of a 6-point lead over Sanders.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at broadly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at broadly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at broadly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA