Essentially

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Essentially \Es*sen"tial*ly\, adv.
     In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree;
     really; as, essentially different.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  essentially
       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}, {fundamentally}, {in essence},
              {au fond}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "essentially":
     a outrance, absolutely, actually, all but, all in all, all out,
     almost entirely, approximately, as good as, as much as, at bottom,
     at heart, at the core, au fond, basically, beyond all bounds,
     beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, by and large,
     chiefly, completely, dead, downright, effectually, extremely,
     flat out, fundamentally, immeasurably, in essence, in itself,
     in substance, in the extreme, in the main, incalculably,
     indefinitely, infinitely, mainly, materially, most, mostly,
     on balance, on the whole, per se, perfectly, practically,
     primarily, purely, radically, really, substantially, totally,
     unconditionally, unequivocally, utterly, virtually, well-nigh,
     with a vengeance