Fundamentally
[fʌndə'mentəlɪ] or [,fʌndə'mɛntəli]
Definition
(adv.) Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.
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Examples
- But all men cannot preach or teach; doctrine is but one of many of the functions of life that are fundamentally righteous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All are fundamentally Gothic and Nordic peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All human history is fundamentally a history of ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value have been covered in the prior discussion of aims and interests. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He did not care about money, fundamentally. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My report was that the system was sound fundamentally, that it contained the germ of a good thing, but needed working out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If a thing was right fundamentally the lying was not supposed to matter. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She was not afraid of him, fundamentally. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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