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basically

  • adverb
  • bāʹsĭk-(ə)lē

In a fundamental, essential or basic manner.

Example

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

Other meanings

  1. Essentially; mostly; pretty much.

  2. 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.”

Example sentences

  • “I disagree with basically everything he says.”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

  • “It's basically a city.”

    Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “basically” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.