essentially
/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ adverb
- adverb In essence: by nature. “The beaver is a social creature, not just occasionally but essentially.”
- adverb (by extension) In essence: in most ways that matter; in all ways that matter. “A: So you're saying, in other words, that he's greedy? B: Essentially, yes, that's what I'm saying.”
Synonyms
inherently intrinsically innately naturally quintessentially in and of itself per se actually at bottom at heart basically fundamentally characteristically centrally substantially au fond by definition deep down in effect in essence
Antonyms
circumstantially happenstantially incidentally coincidentally by chance accidentally adventitiously by accident fortuitously on accident
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “essentially”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details