basically

[ bey-sik-lee ]

/ ˈbeɪ sɪk li /

fundamentally.

Origin of basically

First recorded in 1900–05; basic + -ally

qua·si-ba·si·cal·ly, adverb

You were basically the guy to do every dictator or crazy character, from Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad to Bin Laden.

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“They basically said thanks a lot and shook our hands and took off,” Stammberger said.

FBI Won’t Stop Blaming North Korea for Sony Hack -- Despite New Evidence |Shane Harris |December 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“Basically, I was contacted and asked if an appeal could be opened on my behalf,” she told me from her home in Providence.

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Mistletoe is basically a vampire—but one of those an anti-hero type vampires.

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“[It was basically] a room with no view,” as R metaphorically put it.

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But this new discovery founded an entirely new form of printing, which basically became the foundation of all succeeding methods.

The Invention of Lithography |Alois Senefelder
Basically there were 11 months, from January to the date of my discharge or the date that he took off.

Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
"For this, basically, is what Satanism is," said Durtal to himself.

L-bas |J. K. Huysmans
The man's costume was basically the same as ours—same general style, but many little differences of fashion.

Crossroads of Destiny |Henry Beam Piper
Fear of hypnosis takes different forms, but basically it is the fear of revealing one's true feelings.

A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis |Melvin Powers

basically

/ (ˈbeɪsɪklɪ) /

in a fundamental or elementary manner; essentially strident and basically unpleasant

(sentence modifier) in essence; in summary; put simply basically we had underestimated mother nature