Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • For the most part.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete For the most part.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb obsolete mostly; for the most part

Etymologies

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most +‎ what

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Examples

  • Kira wasn't sure what unnerved her mostwhat Sisko wasn't telling her, or what he'd almost said between the lines.

    Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

  • Neither would we have any expect our full sense to each particular imaginable in this business, -- it being only a heap of materials, mostwhat unhewed, that we intend, and not a well-compacted fabric; and if the main be not condemned, we are confident no difference will ensue about particulars, which must have their latitude.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

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