Meaning

3 senses
  1. In a fundamental, essential or basic manner.

    They've added some fancy features, but it's basically still a crappy car.

    im Prinzip

    в основно́мv osnovnóm, по существу́po suščestvú, в при́нципеv príncipe

    в основно́муv osnovnómu

  2. Essentially; mostly; pretty much.

  3. Used to refer to the most important or fundamental point that the speaker is making or to indicate a generalization or simplification; sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler word.

    I shouldn't have done it, basically.

    To get your eyes tested, you should basically go to the optician's.

More definitions
  • in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature

Examples

143 sentences
  1. I believe people are basically good.

  2. The hard work is basically over.

  3. Tom does basically the same thing as Mary does.

    deTom macht im Grunde dasselbe wie Maria. — raggione

  4. I did basically the same thing as Tom did.

  5. I do basically the same thing as Tom does.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
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Русский
By meaning 1
in a fundamental or basic manner:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
in a fundamental or basic manner:

Forms

more basically, most basically
Comparativemore basically Lesson
Superlativemost basically

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
in a fundamental manner:essentiallyB2
for the most part:chiefly
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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