essentially

ADVERB

basically

Synonyms

STRONGEST

actually approximately necessarily originally permanently quite really substantially truly typically virtually

STRONG

fundamentally

WEAK

at heart at the heart of centrally characteristically chiefly determinately factually importantly in effect in essence indispensably inherently intimately intrinsically materially more or less so naturally primarily principally radically significantly vitally

Antonyms

STRONGEST

doubtfully

WEAK

apparently on the surface superficially

Example Sentences

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It’s essentially the difference between book smarts and street smarts.

From MarketWatch

The city should also establish a new position, chief financial officer, which would essentially be a title change for what is now called the city administrative officer, the commission recommended.

From Los Angeles Times

If the yield falls below 3.75%, the bond market would be essentially pricing in a “genuine growth scare,” said portfolio manager Vincent Ahn at Wisdom Fixed Income Management in Plano, Texas.

From MarketWatch

The tool is essentially a modelling framework that links two things that have traditionally been handled separately:

From BBC

In recent weeks, GSA officials were told to put xAI’s logo on a tool called USAi, which is essentially a sandbox for federal employees to experiment with different AI models.

From The Wall Street Journal

essentially

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