|fəndə|ment ə lē, - ə li sometimes ÷-tlē or ÷-tli adverb
Etymology: Middle English fundamentali, from fundamental + -li -ly
: in a fundamental manner : in the manner of a primary source
animals are fundamentally dependent on plant life
: in essential structure or function
systems fundamentally different
fundamentally all forms of mathematics are short cuts for the operations of grade-school arithmetic — Robert Bendiner
: in a fundamental disposition
a fundamentally honest person
: basically