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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fundamentally
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
differ fundamentally (=in a very basic way)
▪ These paintings differed fundamentally from his earlier work.
fatally/fundamentally/deeply etc flawed
▪ The research behind this report is seriously flawed.
fundamentally
▪ The political situation has fundamentally changed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ An army and a navy are fundamentally different.
▪ The nature of the masculine economy of self-representation makes it blind to another economy that takes a fundamentally different approach.
▪ However, as Reina Lewis has demonstrated, women's images of Oriental nudes are fundamentally different at the point of reception.
▪ Government and business are fundamentally different institutions.
▪ It is more likely, however, that they are fundamentally different.
▪ Differences such as these create fundamentally different incentives in the public sector.
▪ But in an affluent society the problem of poverty is fundamentally different from what it is in an underdeveloped economy.
▪ This case is fundamentally different in two ways.
important
▪ Matching and randomization are two fundamentally important design techniques to enhance the validity and efficiency of a study.
▪ Once we are really aware of this fundamentally important fact, our whole attitude to ourselves will begin to change.
▪ Even a skeletal list of the fundamentally important matters which we thus take for granted would be very long.
▪ It is fundamentally important that these 12 Steps are actually worked rather than recited or merely thought to be nice in theory.
wrong
▪ My personal reaction to Tomlinson is that its conclusions about Barts and the other hospitals scheduled for closure are fundamentally wrong.
■ VERB
alter
▪ It is going to fundamentally alter the rules by which which business operates.
▪ The character of the field man's work was fundamentally altered in ways unknown to younger staff.
▪ The distribution of power in the legislature was also fundamentally altered by the dilution of the seniority principle in the early 1970s.
▪ Structural alterations Fundamentally altering the property to suit your business could be in breach of the agreement.
▪ But the international climate in which he finds himself has altered fundamentally.
▪ Unification had been imposed from above, without fundamentally altering the existing state and political system.
▪ The differing forms of these strategies will fundamentally alter the direction and scope of central interventions and peripheral responses.
▪ The final year of the Occupation did not fundamentally alter this status.
change
▪ In short, the planning scene had changed fundamentally.
▪ Even the cost of diagnosis has fundamentally changed.
▪ But I agree with Steve Jones that our moral framework won't be fundamentally changed.
▪ It will fundamentally change your life for the better.
▪ Today the situation has not changed fundamentally.
▪ It also fundamentally changed the nature of the Shah's relations with his government and people.
▪ The way in which films are distributed and exhibited cinematically has been fundamentally changed by the multiplex revolution.
▪ Carter had been no mean personal campaigner himself in the past, but by 1980 his situation had changed fundamentally.
differ
▪ Coventry, moreover, differed fundamentally from the Stour Valley.
▪ In such cases the citizens often dream of reunification, even when their governments and ideology differ fundamentally.
▪ Clements was an influential writer who developed a philosophy of ecology that differed fundamentally from the reductionism of Warming and Cowles.
remain
▪ Advocates of the popular front remained fundamentally anti-war.
▪ For all the new packaging, these diets remain fundamentally unchanged from when I first went to Weight Watchers.
▪ The system of cash planning introduced in 1982 remained fundamentally unchanged for the next decade, but see below.
▪ But it will be indispensable for social equilibrium in a world which so far remains fundamentally capitalist.
▪ Private nuisance remains fundamentally a remedy for the infringement of a proprietary interest in land.
▪ In these four ways, housing differs from other consumer goods though it remains fundamentally a private market commodity.
▪ The greatest designers can sway with the prevailing mood of the moment, but remain fundamentally true to their own spirit.
▪ A rescue operation was mounted in 1963, but the Balance of Payments situation remains fundamentally unsatisfactory.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Fundamentally, we have a good safety program.
▪ Both sides remain fundamentally divided on key issues.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But fundamentally the workers are not empowered, because all these things can be denied at any time.
▪ But this pastoral economy was fundamentally inelastic.
▪ In turn, however, the question of where population is growing - or declining - is fundamentally related to human welfare.
▪ More fundamentally, it was grounded in a deficit view of needs.
▪ That is a fundamentally undemocratic argument.
▪ Why are body plans so fundamentally similar?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fundamentally

Fundamentally \Fun`da*men"tal*ly\, adv. Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. ``Fundamentally defective.''
--Burke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fundamentally

c.1600, from fundamental + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
fundamentally

adv. to the very core of the matter

WordNet
fundamentally

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, essentially, in essence, au fond]

Usage examples of "fundamentally".

With cotton, wool, wheat and mountains rich in minerals, Shensi should have been prosperous but was not, owing to opium-smoking and banditry, but fundamentally to lack of good communications.

The plan of God for the salvation of men, as its culmination is seen in Christ, is the exhibition of the true type of being, the true style of motive and action, for their assimilation and reproduction: but Calvinism, when fundamentally analyzed, reduces it to a monarchical manifesto and spectacular drama working its effects through verbal terms, acts of mental assent and gesticular deeds.

The guildhall meetings they all troop into to mutter, over fine wines that would pay to feed fifteen starving families, about how the average guildsman is fundamentally lazy .

For if Rajari was not fundamentally and irredeemably evil, then that gave Soleta some hope for herself.

What modem thought is to throw fundamentally into question is the relation of meaning with the form of truth and the form of being: in the firmament of our reflection there reigns a discourse - a perhaps inaccessible discourse -which would at the same time be an ontology and a semantics.

According to Born and more than half a century of subsequent experiments, the wave nature of matter implies that matter itself must be described fundamentally in a probabilistic manner.

Avarice would appear incompatible with the mindset that produces a Relativist, or that a Relativist producesa rare case of fortune bringing immense wealth to people fundamentally indifferent to it.

It was in a constant state of reoccupation, favoured only by marginal or twilight enterprises indifferent to a fundamentally inhuman environment.

There is music of his that is authentic by virtue of qualities more fundamentally racial than the synagogical modes on which it bases itself, the Semitic pomp and color that inform it.

There are other physicists, however, who are deeply unsettled by the fact that the two foundational pillars of physics as we know it are at their core fundamentally incompatible, regardless of the ultramicroscopic distances that must be probed to expose the problem.

Yet Berger stands also for the most current transformation overtaking Orientalism: its conversion from a fundamentally philological discipline and a vaguely general apprehension of the Orient into a social science specialty.

This same unadaptability of logic and reason to organic rhythms affects fundamentally the Nation-Idea during the period of Rationalism.

Conversely, punishment and discipline are fundamentally important tools for the unmotivated, capable, yet underperforming student.

She seemed undriven by human neurosis, as though she had stripped away that fundamentally human part.

The various nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophical frameworks of negative thought, from Nietzsche to Heidegger and Adorno, are fundamentally right to foresee the end of modern metaphysics and to link modernity and crisis.