Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - fundamentally

1. You use fundamentally for emphasis when you are stating an opinion, or when you are making an important or general statement about something. Fundamentally, women like him for his sensitivity and charming vulnerability... He can be very charming, but he is fundamentally a bully... = basically ADV: ADV with cl/group c darkgreen]emphasis 2. You use fundamentally to indicate that something affects or relates to the deep, basic nature of something. He disagreed fundamentally with the President’s judgment... Environmentalists say the treaty is fundamentally flawed. = profoundly ADV: ADV with v