fundamentally
adverb/ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəli/
Frequency rank: #5,549 most common English word
Meaning
in a basic or essential way; at the most important level.
Example sentence
The two proposals are fundamentally different from each other, so we cannot combine them.
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