Crossword clues for fundamentally
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
c.1600, from fundamental + -ly (2).
Wiktionary
adv. to the very core of the matter
WordNet
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.