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Princeton's WordNet

  1. basically, fundamentally, essentially(adverb)

    in essence; 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"

Wiktionary

  1. essentially(Adverb)

    in an essential manner; in essence.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'essentially' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2893

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'essentially' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2213

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'essentially' in Adverbs Frequency: #221

How to pronounce essentially?

  1. Alex
    Alex
    US English
    Daniel
    Daniel
    British
    Karen
    Karen
    Australian
    Veena
    Veena
    Indian

How to say essentially in sign language?

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of essentially in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of essentially in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of essentially in a Sentence

  1. Donald Trump:

    We've essentially gutted it anyway.

  2. Denis Diderot:

    All children are essentially criminal.

  3. Aristotle:

    Friendship is essentially a partnership.

  4. George Santayana:

    Music is essentially useless, as life is.

  5. Lennon Sweeting:

    Libra is essentially slammed in the Senate.

Images & Illustrations of essentially

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