essentially
She thinks that people are fundamentally good.
Surely his argument is fundamentally true, even if you quibble with the details?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Essential or necessary
a man's gotta do what a man's gotta doidiom
baked in
basically
basis
be a question of doing somethingidiom
box ticking
elemental
hang
hang on/upon something
have occasion to do somethingidiom
if need beidiom
if/when push comes to shoveidiom
meat and potatoesidiom
necessary
necessary evil
necessitate
owe
symbiosis
symbiotic
symbiotically

Examples of fundamentally

fundamentally
Finally, our critique, though largely a demonstration of the inadequacy of their model, fundamentally rests on the undeniable existence, indeed primacy, of qualitative experience.
While definitions of the cognitive framing exercise generate much consensus, the literature does use the term in a second, fundamentally different way.
However, despite the obvious disparity in outcomes, the process can still be regarded as a fundamentally egalitarian one.
Fifthly, and perhaps more fundamentally, the result also reflects a significant decrease in the support enjoyed by the ruling party in terms of numerical votes.
The seeming challenge comes from a fundamentally dubious analysis.
I persist in believing that the original analysis is fundamentally correct, though, and that the theoretical conclusions derived from it are reasonable ones.
Given these very different audience potentials, locating caches in either interior or exterior locations appears to represent fundamentally different types of ritual behavior.
In essence, this is because systems involved are fundamentally fairly similar.
The goal was simple: to scale back the scope of the federal government fundamentally.
Patron-client systems comprise and institutionalize fundamentally unequal relations in which both parties seek to maximize the advantages they derive from the relationship.
Since in the short run capital markets remained guarded, exchange rates fundamentally fixed and monetary independence protected, the actual process of adjustment was seriously compromised.
Biological observations may not be determinative, but they have the potential to fundamentally reframe the inquiry.
In keeping with the fundamentally conservative nature of prescriptivism, its advocates see the use of the nominative in this domain as a loathsome innovation.
Customary law, by its very nature, differs fundamentally from locale to locale but there appear to be certain common attributes that allow for some generalisations.
Ritual places in hills, mountains and high places were always created fundamentally as cosmic projections.
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