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fundamentally

adverbattested in dialogue

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In a fundamental or basic sense; reaching the very core of the matter.

adverb

  1. 1

    In a fundamental or basic sense; reaching the very core of the matter.

    What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict.

    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.

    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.

Etymology

Etymology tree English fundamental Middle English -ly English -ly English fundamentally From fundamental + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more fundamentally
superlative
most fundamentally
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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