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[ adverb ] at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature

Synonyms

essentially basically in_essence au_fond

Examples

"He is basically dishonest" "the argument was essentially a technical one" "for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person"

Used in print

(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)

In municipal systems we tend to view what is called positivism as fundamentally a movement to democratize policy by increasing the power of parliament - the elected representatives - at the expense of the more conservative judiciary .

Related terms

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experimentally temperamentally environmentally developmentally mentally mentally developmentally accidentally environmentally incidentally coincidentally governmentally temperamentally governmentally mentally centrally temperamentally developmentally experimentally customarily environmentally accidentally mentally kennelly primarily testily scantily kennelly merrily confidentially essentially accidentally incidentally exponentially tangentially sequentially potentially generally eventually perennially preferentially coincidentally governmentally professionally phenomenally nominally unintentionally jauntily horizontally minimally criminally nattily frantically ordinarily extraordinarily fatally tully internally externally exceptionally totally merrily involuntarily terminally readily professionally customarily commercially centrally primarily regretfully eternally tangentially exponentially mightily personally hastily confidentially essentially eventually potentially preferentially sequentially intentionally nationally professionally rationally unconditionally provisionally conditionally unconstitutionally personally internationally occasionally irrationally seasonally educationally regionally nutritionally functionally marginally traditionally operationally conventionally eternally medicinally constitutionally exceptionally originally proportionally gravitationally unintentionally institutionally additionally italy steadily practically frantically internally externally wearily involuntarily warily eternally unintentionally wittily subtly emotionally heavily internationally diagonally rationally nationally irrationally emotionally proportionally generally formally normally militarily necessarily severally carefully respectfully federally mortally uncannily serenely connolly finally handily obscenely informally subfamily abnormally parenthetically sympathetically momentarily militarily successfully dreadfully hermetically nasally pathetically extraordinarily necessarily secondarily unsuccessfully ordinarily voluntarily theoretically anencephaly temporarily magnetically temporally regretfully romantically vitally manfully exceptionally anomaly specially especially horizontally functionally personally painfully gainfully gravitationally occasionally carefully severally gratefully federally testily universally educationally operationally tastefully unconditionally

Phonetic and Homophones

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