fundamentally
English
[edit]Etymology
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From fundamental + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]fundamentally (comparative more fundamentally, superlative most fundamentally)
- In a fundamental or basic sense; reaching the very core of the matter.
- 2000 June 24, Michael Massing, “Seeing Drugs as a Choice Or as a Brain Anomaly”, in The New York Times[1]:
- What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict.
- 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC[2]:
- Hanks is known as being an avid reader of history and biography, and seems to seek out stories which offer a certain optimism and humanism. In other words, he plays – fundamentally – good people.
- 2021 November 5, Chris Cillizza, “Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake”, in CNN[3]:
- On Tuesday, a proposal to fundamentally restructure the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 was soundly defeated, a setback that even many Democrats acknowledged could be laid at the feet of the “defund the police” movement that some within the party embraced last summer.
Synonyms
[edit]- basically, essentially; see also Thesaurus:fundamentally
Translations
[edit]to the very core of the matter
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