# fundamentally

Pronunciation: say "fun-duh-MEN-tuh-lee" /ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəli/

## Adverb

1. At the deepest, most essential level; in a way that reaches the core of the matter rather than its surface details.
   - Simple: In a deep, basic way that changes or affects the most important part of something.
   - _Their approaches to solving the problem are fundamentally incompatible._
   - _The discovery fundamentally altered how scientists understood the disease._

## Origin

Formed from the adjective "fundamental" with the adverb-forming suffix "-ly".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/fundamentally (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).