FUNDAMENTALLY


Meaning of FUNDAMENTALLY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fʌndəmentəli ]

1.

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...

= basically

ADV : ADV with cl / group [ emphasis ]

2.

You use fundamentally to indicate that something affects or relates to the deep, basic nature of something.

He disagreed fundamentally with the President’s judgment...

Environmentalists say the treaty is fundamentally flawed.

= profoundly

ADV : ADV with v

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