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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
essentially
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broadly/essentially correct (=correct in most ways, but possibly not all)
▪ All the evidence suggests that the results of his research are essentially correct.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ Genuine collegiality is something essentially different.
▪ These four basic styles depict essentially different leadership styles.
▪ Perhaps the relationship between academic staff and student is essentially different so that regulation is required.
▪ As such, the operation was essentially different from planning which involved prior political judgements about what ought to be achieved.
▪ Even in this restricted form it is possible to write essentially different programs which are nevertheless semantically equivalent.
▪ Did I not know that men's and women's natures were essentially different?
political
▪ The other diagnoses are essentially political.
▪ That means it is essentially political in motivation.
▪ This has always been an essentially political issue, although race has never been far away.
▪ Because it commended a particular kind of rule as a recipe for effective government, Bodin's theory had been essentially political.
▪ For the people, against the people Perhaps the greatest puzzle of all, however, is essentially political.
▪ The problem of specifying the timing and the form of effective state action is essentially political, not economic.
▪ This essentially political definition of imperialism is not shared by Lenin.
▪ The reason for this emphasis on the way in which people are labelled is that laws are essentially political products.
similar
▪ The reasons, consequences and approach taken remain essentially similar, regardless of the type of drug used.
▪ The analysis was done as described in ref. 49, with minor modifications; mice and rats gave essentially similar results.
▪ Analogy means that the events being investigated are essentially similar in kind to those of which we ourselves have direct experience.
▪ The situation in Cramlington is essentially similar.
unchanged
▪ Labelling indices remained essentially unchanged in those patient who underwent biopsy twice.
▪ Since then the device has remained essentially unchanged in principle.
▪ In spite of so many hopes of a new order the old one proved tough enough to survive essentially unchanged.
■ VERB
mean
▪ Since costs tend to rise inexorably, attempts to stabilize public spending have essentially meant cuts in actual services.
▪ John Sculley was now in charge of Apple, which essentially meant that he was in charge of Macintosh.
▪ Taking usage rate as a variable essentially means segmenting on the basis of volume purchased.
▪ In the down-sizing 1990s, this essentially means providing the glue that will make disparate mainframe, client-server and network systems co-function.
▪ This last variable is worrying, as it essentially means you have no idea what the scheme's going to cost.
remain
▪ But however the goals of their lowland neighbours have shifted over time, they have remained essentially predatory.
▪ But the number of women who die from the disease each year has remained essentially the same.
▪ The reasons, consequences and approach taken remain essentially similar, regardless of the type of drug used.
▪ The precise boundaries were often changed, but the location of the battlefield remained essentially the same from beginning to end.
▪ Labelling indices remained essentially unchanged in those patient who underwent biopsy twice.
▪ The cost of the network remained essentially flat for the quarter.
▪ Thus, with certain limited exceptions, rape remains essentially a crime involving violence or the threat of it.
▪ Some district councils remained essentially reactive, but others actively attacked problems in their neighborhoods.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Essentially, "domicile" is just a legal term for the place where you live.
▪ Polk clearly states her belief that the world is essentially a good place.
▪ She's added a few characters and changed some names but essentially this is a true story.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But essentially I was moving away from dead ends more than being drawn toward children.
▪ But much of what Congress is doing now is essentially meaningless.
▪ He listens politely, then makes plausible but essentially empty gestures.
▪ I see art as essentially a luxury.
▪ It was essentially confined to our division.
▪ Taking usage rate as a variable essentially means segmenting on the basis of volume purchased.
▪ The whole argument might be presented as proceeding, essentially, in three main stages.
▪ What mechanism allows toadstools -- essentially very soft and squashy items -- to push through two inches of asphalt?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Essentially

Essentially \Es*sen"tial*ly\, adv. In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.

Wiktionary
essentially

adv. In an essential manner; in essence.

WordNet
essentially

adv. at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature; "He is basically dishonest"; "the argument was essentially a technical one"; "for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person" [syn: basically, fundamentally, in essence, au fond]

Usage examples of "essentially".

Was Aden really doing what I thought he was doing, essentially establishing me as the goto person for conducting archaeological research in Stone Harbor?

Nazi aggression was to remain essentially unchanged and to be used with staggering success until an aroused world much later woke up to it.

Taking 800 micrograms of folate a day in supplements, or 1,400 micrograms through your diet, can reduce homocysteine levels dramatically, essentially removing any excess homocysteine from your bloodstream and stopping its aging effects.

Our cognitive sciences are themselves suffering from an agnosia essentially similar to Dr P.

Paul returned to London while the idea was still fresh, though it was essentially an album filler.

Essentially the alchemical texts contained lessons in sex magic and chemistry at the same time.

For while Lutheranism stood essentially for passive obedience, and flourished nowhere save as a state church, Anabaptism was frankly revolutionary and often socialistic.

We hold moreover that they communicate their ideas in essentially the same manner as we do--that is to say, by the instrumentality of a code of symbols attached to certain states of mind and material objects, in the first instance arbitrarily, but so persistently, that the presentation of the symbol immediately carries with it the idea which it is intended to convey.

It is essentially an arsenide of iron, carrying a considerable quantity of tin.

It also occurs as arseniate in erythrine, and as oxide in asbolan or earthy cobalt, which is essentially a wad carrying cobalt.

Yet this problem, to your eyes, I fear, not essentially novel or peculiarly involute, holds for my contemplative faculties an extraordinary fascination, to wit: wherein does the mind, in itself a muscle, escape from the laws of the physical, and wherein and wherefore do the laws of the physical exercise so inexorable a jurisdiction over the processes of the mind, so that a disorder of the visual nerve actually distorts the asomatous and veils the pneumatoscopic?

The farmer understands that if he wishes to materially improve his cows, the first offspring must be begotten by a better, purer breed, and all that follow will be essentially benefited, even if not so well sired.

Even the flaring coral pink and incarnadine satins of the capes glistened with the lubricious tones of intimate feminine flesh and served to underscore the essentially lascivious nature of the frenzy that descended upon the tiered ranks of spectators.

Hence, since the ceorls doubtless formed the bulk of the population, it has been thought that the Anglo-Saxon armies of early times were essentially peasant forces.

To sum up, a duration and a percipient event are essentially involved in the general character of each observation of nature, and the percipient event is cogredient with the duration.