to a great extent

1. 1.

   to a considerable degree

   “he relied heavily on others' data”

   Synonymsheavily

Questions about to a great extent

What does to a great extent mean?

to a great extent means "to a considerable degree".

What is another word for to a great extent?

Close synonyms include heavily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is to a great extent a common word?

to a great extent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.