generally

Superlative

most generally

1. 1.Popularly or widely.

   • It is generally known that the Earth is round.
   • The action he inaugurated culminated in the law for the suppression of trampage, that has accomplished such good in the Granite State, and that has been so generally copied in other states.
   • After defending our argument against several objections, we conclude by considering the implications our argument has for the rest of the instrumental convergence thesis and for AI safety more generally.

2. 2.As a rule; usually; typically; in most cases.

   • I generally have a walk in the afternoon.
   • Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

3. 3.Without reference to specific details.

   • Autopsy results revealed that Braydon was generally malnourished and thin. His cause of death was hyperthermia due to the extreme heat, which would have “caused extreme discomfort and difficulty breathing as he died.”

4. 4.In the general case, without exception; in all cases.

   • It is generally true that the angles of a triangle sum to 180 degrees.

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