ESSENTIALLY Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

essentially

adverb

Definition of essentially

as in basically

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Recent Examples of essentially Scientists call it pyrocumulus, essentially a cloud born from fire. — Joe Ruch, CBS News, 31 July 2026 Sam confirmed to me that Better Call Saul was essentially your audition for Sugar. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2026 According to Ein, the increases were essentially built in as part of a long-term plan to close the gap between men’s and women’s prize pools. — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 31 July 2026 Earlier this year Broadbent and several collaborators published essentially the same construction that Ananth’s AI system initially proposed. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for essentially

Recent Examples of Synonyms for essentially

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The crowd was basically comatose as both teams used the chains to strangle one another.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
That’s a good thing for Linde, whose gases are used in basically every industry, including steel, mining and healthcare.

— Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 26 July 2026

Definition of basically

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When a disability fundamentally alters how an individual understands relationships or interprets social situations, failing to recognize those differences risks producing outcomes that satisfy consistency while falling short of justice.

— Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
The fix gets dismissed as a database bolted onto a chatbot, when continual learning is a fundamentally unsolved machine learning problem.

— Alexander Kardos-Nyheim, Fortune, 25 July 2026