fundamentally

fundamentally
[[t]fʌ̱ndəme̱ntəli[/t]]
1) ADV-GRADED: ADV with cl/group (emphasis) You use fundamentally for emphasis when you are stating an opinion, or when you are making an important or general statement about something.

Fundamentally, women like him for his sensitivity and charming vulnerability...

He can be very charming, but he is fundamentally a bully...

Fundamentally, it was a conventional bomber, but it had a number of interesting innovations.

Syn:
2) ADV-GRADED: ADV with v You use fundamentally to indicate that something affects or relates to the deep, basic nature of something.

He disagreed fundamentally with the President's judgement...

I don't think it has fundamentally altered the sport...

Environmentalists say the treaty is fundamentally flawed.

Syn:
profoundly

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