Meanings
- informalnot comparablesignificantly; very, very much
2004, John Ringo & Julie Cochrane, Cally's War, Baen Books The Taco Hell was okay the last time I tried it, but that was a few months ago when I was majorly low on cash.
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Campus police break up parties routinely, but nobody really gets majorly busted.
1984, Joseph Westlund, Shakespeare's Reparative Comedies: A Psychoanalytic View of the Middle Plays, University of Chicago Press, Page 92The thing is I am majorly stressing because I have no prom date set up.
2000, Scholastic, Inc. Staff (eds), Diary of a Junior Year, Scholastic Paperbacks, Page 135“Mimi, here’s the thing. When somebody in that crowd goes and does something majorly out of control like that, it’s only a matter of days before the rest of the girls in school make sure they've caught up. …”
2005, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-grade Social Climber, Graphia Books, Page 173 - not comparablemostly, primarily
This chapter is majorly devoted to the primary immunodeficiencies that have been documented in domestic animals.
2000, Bernard F. Feldman, Joseph G. Zinkl, Nemi C. Jain (eds), Schalm's Veterinary Hematology, Blackwell Publishing, Page 2603 more examples
Significant contrasts can be drawn between the course of personality development in which children are majorly reared by grandparents who have …
1930, American Orthopsychiatric Association, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Page 634This is due not solely, or even majorly, to the fact the above type of analysis concerns itself primarily with what will happen in the long run.
1963, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) and British Economic Association, The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journey of the British Economic Association, Macmillan, Page 686Alaska Airlines and United Airlines, both major US operators of the Boeing 737 Max 9, cancelled a combined 342 flights Monday as the grounding of the aircraft continues to majorly disrupt their schedules.
2024 January 8, Jordan Valinsky, “Alaska and United cancel more than 300 flights Monday because of the 737 Max 9 grounding”, in CNN
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*méǵh₂s
- Proto-Indo-European*méǵyōs
- Proto-Italic*majjōs
- Latinmaior
- Middle Englishmajor
- Englishmajor
- Englishmajorly
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