fundamentallyadverb
uk/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl.i/us/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl.i/C2 in a basic and important way:
Our new managing director has reorganized the company a little bit, but nothing has fundamentally changed/altered (= its basic character has not changed).
I still believe that people are fundamentally good.
I disagree fundamentally with what you're saying.
More examples
- She thinks that people are fundamentally good.
- Surely his argument is fundamentally true, even if you quibble with the details?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Essential or necessary
- a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do idiom
- basically
- basis
- be a question of doing sth idiom
- business-critical
- dependence
- imply
- incumbent
- indispensable
- inherent
- integral
- interdependent
- needed
- needful
- occasion
- on a need-to-know basis idiom
- owe
- owe it to yourself idiom
- underlying
- warrant
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