Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- By reason of natural constitution; in essence: as, minerals and plants are essentially different.
- In an essential manner or degree; in effect; fundamentally: as, the two statements do not differ essentially.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature
Examples
“The term essentially refers to everyone except for non-Hispanic white people.”
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“This essentially is a question of evidence, and some countries do have legal euthanasia already.”
“The above quote essentially translates as “I’m in favor of people belonging to any culture that I approve of.””
“Once commerce was defined as essentially anything related to buying and selling, there was really no limit to what Congress could do as long as when challenged the judiciary found it could be brought within Marshall's definition.”
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“In short, while the Tea Party was successful in essentially taking over the Republican Party, its nominees were not attractive to mainstream voters.”
“It put one Titus Flavius Vespasianus in essentially sole command of the Eastern legions, and concentrated them in one place.”
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“The advice in the Prince, essentially, is advice offered to a tyrant.”
“Those individuals who remain essentially very healthy for many years and then suddenly die or perhaps leave a particular health plan for some other reason – if they have put more money into the pot than was taken out to pay all their medical expenses – wind up helping to pay the medical bills of those members of the health plan who become seriously ill or injured and incur a lot of medical expenses.”
“Why in the world should our health care continue to be used to increase the profit margins of corporate share holders? the GOP essentially is supporting profits over people.”
“While some of their ideas have merrits, their overall "plan" (which essentially is to let the free-market do its thing) won't work.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘essentially’.
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone has to list them.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about adverbs here.
Reesetee's list Conjunctive Adv...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2238 more...
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Units Of Language
Word:
-a unit of language consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.sulk, promenade, skulk, idle, subsequently, moody, paroxysm, felony, anent, generic, hallucinogen, synaesthesia and 214 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Spam Names
Interesting words that came to me in spam emails in the "From" field. Read in pairs by order added, add the initial of your choice, and you'll get a list of "names."
menominee, burbled, abrasives, barrister, unfortunates, strolls, appareled, uncles, removal, elusive, significance, described and 180 more...
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ninaj's Words
ergo, fickle, thus, tenable, cabal, essentially, ejaculation, tabula rasa, pedantic, decommodification, incommensurable, tyrannicide and 10 more...
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Words I Use Often While Speaking To Parents and...
I work in the admissions office at Sarah Lawrence, and, as part of my job description, am required to give info sessions. These are words I often use, sometimes necessarily, sometimes not.
essentially, em, basically, unique, individual, conference, don, 'you are not a nu...
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