fundamentally

From fundamental +‎ -ly.

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fundamentally (comparative more fundamentally, superlative most fundamentally)

1. In a fundamental or basic sense; reaching the very core of the matter.
   • 2000 June 24, Michael Massing, “Seeing Drugs as a Choice Or as a Brain Anomaly”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict.

   • 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC‎^[2]:

     Hanks is known as being an avid reader of history and biography, and seems to seek out stories which offer a certain optimism and humanism. In other words, he plays – fundamentally – good people.

   • 2021 November 5, Chris Cillizza, “Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     On Tuesday, a proposal to fundamentally restructure the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 was soundly defeated, a setback that even many Democrats acknowledged could be laid at the feet of the “defund the police” movement that some within the party embraced last summer.

• basically, essentially; see also Thesaurus:fundamentally