Definition of Fundamentally

1. Adverb. In essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature. "For all his bluster he is in essence a shy person"

Exact synonyms: Basically, Essentially
Partainyms: Essential, Fundamental

Definition of Fundamentally

1. adv. Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.

Definition of Fundamentally

1. Adverb. to the very core of the matter ¹

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Definition of Fundamentally

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fundamentally

fundamental groups
fundamental interaction
fundamental interactions
fundamental law
fundamental measure
fundamental particle
fundamental particles
fundamental principle
fundamental quantity
fundamentalism
fundamentalisms
fundamentalist
fundamentalistic
fundamentalists
fundamentality
fundamentally (current term)
fundamentalness
fundamentals
fundaments
fundas
fundectomies
fundectomy
funded
funder
funders
fundholder
fundholders
fundholding
fundi
fundic

Literary usage of Fundamentally

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science of Jurisprudence: A Treatise in which the Growth of Positive Law by Hannis Taylor (1908)
"Portuguese law fundamentally Roman. worked first the Corregidor ... The Portuguese law is fundamentally Roman. As the country was civilized by the Romans, ..."

2. Electrical Machinery: A Practical Study Course on Installation, Operation by Fred Anzley Annett (1921)
"... ALTERNATING CURRENT Dynamo-electric Machines fundamentally Generate Alternating Current.—Before taking up the studies of alternating current the student ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"The objection that the physical characteristics of Hebrews and Britons differ fundamentally is met by the following argument (p. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This theory, fundamentally opposed to the whole conception of God in the Western Scholastic system, had also been prepared by Eastern Fathers and ..."

5. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"... binding.7 But though the judicial duel fundamentally derived its efficacy as a means of ascertaining the truth from its connection with an oath, it has, ..."

6. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards (1844)
"It is the immediate view of that wherein the beauty fundamentally lies, that is pleasing to the virtuous mind. In this a sensation of secondary beauty ..."

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