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

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Free cash flow, which is essentially cash from operations minus capital spending, is supposed to be a pure metric of a firm’s value creation.

From Barron's

The judge said the government had produced “essentially zero evidence” that Powell had committed a crime.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I was just in a giant sort of all-hands on coding, going through all the things that need to happen to essentially exceed our competitors on coding, which I think we’ll do.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Iran has essentially shut the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passage between Oman and Iran where a fifth of the world’s oil transits.

From The Wall Street Journal

"And those ones are immigrants and the disenfranchised, essentially."

From BBC

essentially

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