Particularly vs Mostly - What's the difference?
particularly | mostly |
(focus) Especially, extremely.
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, title= (degree) To a great extent.
Specifically, uniquely or individually.
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
In detail; with regard to particulars.
English degree adverbs
English focus adverbs
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Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.
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, title= (obsolete) To the greatest extent; most.
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As adverbs the difference between particularly and mostly
is that particularly is especially, extremely while mostly is mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.particularly
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Alternative forms
* perticularly (obsolete)Adverb
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Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly' damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
- But as the half progressed, Liverpool's pressure and high-tempo passing game increased United's frustration and it threatened to boil over on the stroke of half-time when Van Persie, who had already been booked, was involved in angry verbal exchanges with several Liverpool players, particularly Gerrard.
mostly
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Alternative forms
* mostlie (obsolete) * moastly (obsolete)Adverb
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- She was to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly prized [...]!