Essentially

Definition: Essentially

Essentially

Adverb

1. At bottom or by one's (or its) very nature; "He is basically dishonest"; "the argument was essentially a technical one"; "for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "essentially" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Essentially

Greatness

Adverb: truly; (truth); decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience; for the most part, in the main.

Substantiality

Adverb: substantially; Adjective: bodily, essentially.

I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange right? (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

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We see our role as essentially defensive in nature. (Kelly's Heroes; writing credit: Troy Kennedy-Martin)

Essentially Dee (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Essentially Canadian (reference)

• Essentially Eggplant (reference)

• Essentially Israel (reference)

• Essentially Soap (reference)

• Essentially Speaking (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Essentially Christmas (reference)

• Scotch Mist is Essentially Irish (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

White Finger Disease, or Raynaud's Syndrome, is essentially a problem involving a lack of blood to the nerves, and in this case, was caused by the constant vibration of the hands and arms.Credit: CDC.

Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) dive bombers on the Japanese aircraft carriers Soryu, Akagi and Kaga in the morning of 4 June 1942. The diorama was created during World War II on the basis of information then available. It is therefore somewhat inaccurate in scope and detail. This angle of view is essentially the reciprocal of that shown in Photo # 80-G-701869. It depicts Soryu (attacked by Yorktown aircraft) in the center foreground, with Kaga and Akagi (both attacked by Enterprise aircraft) as the two most distant burning ships. The burning ship at far right is a light cruiser, which had been erroneously reported to have been hit.Credit: NAVY.

Underway during the early 1950s, probably soon after she was recommissioned in July 1951. The ship is still essentially in her late World War II configuration.Credit: NAVY.

Underway in 1941. This view shows the ship essentially as completed, with five 5"/38 guns and ten torpedo tubes.Credit: NAVY.

Underway soon after she was recommissioned, circa 1951-1952. The ship is still essentially in her late World War II configuration, with ten torpedo tubes, 20mm guns, and wartime radars.Credit: NAVY.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Hamilton, of New York,) expressing their unanimous conviction that it might essentially tend to advance the interests of the Union if the States by which they were respectively delegated would concur, and use their endeavors to procure the concurrence of the other States, in the appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the Second Monday of May following, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled as, when agreed to by them and afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State, would effectually provide for the same. (reference)

This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is, consequently, to be considered, by this court, as one of the fundamental principles of our society. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Social philosophy is essentially science and peace.

We are often reminded that if there were bestowed on us the wealth of Croesus, our aims must still be the same, and our means essentially the same.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They recover from infections, gain weight, and move on to essentially normal lives. (references)

Each plasma cell is essentially a factory for producing that one specific antibody. (references)

After that, with rare exceptions, most of the injury that has occurred is essentially permanent. (references)

Business

Essentially all children put up for foreign adoption are girls. (references)

All three types of banks offer essentially the same, full range of services to their customers. (references)

The U.S. is essentially not present in the hazardous waste management market, with a few exceptions. (references)

Children

India

The NHRC continue to use old concepts of mental health care and essentially function as custodial rather than therapeutic institutions. (references)

Guatemala

While the National Council for the Disabled, composed of representatives of concerned government ministries and agencies, met regularly to discuss initiatives, essentially no resources have been devoted to the implementation of their recommendations. (references)

Brazil

On April 6, President Cardoso signed into law what is essentially a patients' bill of rights, which for the first time establishes clear criteria for commitment into mental institutions and gives the Public Minister (an independent watchdog agency) an opportunity to review each case of involuntary or compulsory commitment. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hungary

There essentially are no restrictions on peaceful public gatherings. (references)

Lebanon

The Ministry at times withholds the receipt, essentially transforming a notification procedure into an approval process. (references)

China

Others attribute the decline to the success of the Government crackdown on Falun Gong, which, by the end of the year, had essentially eliminated public manifestations of the movement. (references)

Economic History

Malaysia

For tax purposes, local and foreign enterprises are treated essentially the same. (references)

Bulgaria

Valuation is essentially negotiated by the parties rather than by appointed experts. (references)

Sudan

The new government consisted essentially of the Umma and the Islamic fundamentalist NIF. (references)

Human Rights

Armenia

The military legal system operates essentially as it did during the Soviet era. (references)

Congo

In the territories occupied by the various rebel factions, particularly the RCD/Goma, the system of justice essentially remained nonfunctional. (references)

Sri Lanka

The courts operate without codified or defined legal authority and essentially operate as agents of the LTTE rather than as an independent judiciary. (references)

Indigenous People

Bolivia

More than one-half of all citizens speak indigenous dialects as their first language, and many speak no Spanish at all, which essentially excludes them from most of the formal economy. (references)

Minorities

Slovenia

Most opted not to take Slovene citizenship during a 6-month window in 1991-92 and have been living in the country as essentially stateless persons since then, while others were without residence status because of the slow processing of their applications by the Government. (references)

Political Economy

BAHRAIN

Taxation: Bahrain is essentially tax-free. (references)

Political Rights

Swaziland

Although law and customs are not codified, chiefs essentially are responsible for maintaining law and order in their respective chiefdoms. (references)

Togo

The Government invited a few international observers to comment on the organization and management of the election; however, there were no independent observers present when the military voted on March 18, 1999. Although RPT candidates ran unopposed in most districts, there were reports of intimidation and evidence of fraud to boost statistics on voter participation in what were essentially one-party elections. (references)

Trade

Pakistan

Otherwise foreign banks are accorded essentially the same treatment as Pakistani banks. (references)

Travel

Japan

Upon arrival, going through both immigration and customs checks are essentially a formality for U.S. business travelers as long as passport and air ticket (if arriving without a visa) are in order. (references)

Worker Rights

Gambia

The minimum wage law covers only 20 percent of the labor force, essentially those workers in the formal economic sector. (references)

Japan

In order to repay the debts they incur, trafficked women generally must work long hours (often with no days off) for several months, essentially without pay. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "essentially": essentially german ♦ essentially germanic. Additional references.

Ending with "essentially": muftilik-essentially.

Albanian

para së gjithash (chiefly), në thelb (as a matter of fact, at bottom, substantially). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جوهريا (basically, substantially, ultimately), ‏أساسيا (basically, ultimately). (various references)

Bulgarian 

в основата си (basically, fundamentally, ultimately), по същество (per se, substantially). (various references)

Chinese 

本質上 , � �本上 (fundamentally), 實質上 (virtually). (various references)

Czech

v podstatì (basically, fundamentally, in substance). (various references)

Danish

et knuvklr joint(led)er stort set en forlaengelse af borestrengen og omfatter et universalled i samlingen (the knuckle joint is essentially an extension of the drill string incorporating a universal joint at the junction), en staerk kolddeformation foerer i forhold til en middelkraftig deformation som f.eks.paa 60 %,til en finere rekrystallisationskornstoerrelse,som giver hoejere haardhed og flydegraense (for example 60 %, heavy cold work lead essentially to a finer recrystallized grain which gives higher hardness and higher yield strength, in comparison with moderate amounts of cold work), ensidige engangsbetalinger til pensionskasser,såfremt betalingerne hovedsagelig er beregnet til forøgelse af disse kassers aktuarmæssige reserver (unilateral annual payments into pension funds in so far as these payments are essentially designed to increase the actuarial reserves of these funds), centrale monetære organer,der i det væsentlige er oprettet af det offentlige (central monetary agencies of essentially public origin), de uberoligede blokke bestaar altsaa hovedsagelig af en skal af temmelig rent metal,der omgiver en sejgret kerne,graensen mellem disse to zoner er meget tydelig (unkilled ingots consists essentially of an envelope or shell of rather pure metal - rim - surrounding a segregated centre, with a very distinct limit between the two zones), den anloebne struktur maa derfor yderligere indeholde cementitpartikler og vaere vaesentligt mere finkornet (therefore commercially tempered structures must contain cementite particles and must essentially be fine grained), den udsendte straaling er i det vaesentlige monokromatisk som foelge af den kraftige filtervirkning i roerets tykke vaeg (because of the high filtration effect of the heavy tube wall, the emitted radiation is essentially monochromatic), baandstrukturen,der skyldes sejgring,er vaesentlig grovere end karbidnetvaerket i grundmassen (the banding caused by segregation is essentially coarser than the network of carbide-rich regions), gas-lift udstyr bestaar hovedsageligt i anbringelse af flow ventiler eller flow collars med mellemrum i produktionsroeret;oevrigt udstyr kan bastaa i en intermitter,der benyttes til med intervaller at slippe udefra kommende gas ind i boringen (gas lift equipment consists essentially of inserting flow valves or flow collars at intervals in the tubing;other equipment may include an intermitter, to admit gas from outside sources into the well at intervals), sammenhaengen mellem eksponderingshastigheden ved skaermen og eksponeringshastigheden ved den saedvanlige betragtningsafstand, som stort set er lig med afstanden til gonaderne (the relationship between the exposure rate at the panel and the exposure rate at the usual viewing distance, which is essentially equal to the gonad distance), i det væsentlige afledt sort (essentially derived variety), indkomst,som efter sin art vil være variabel (essentially variable incomes), med mindre end l,0 mm ekstra aluminium-filtrering havde den sidevaerts rettede straaling bloede komponenter, som sloerede den egentlige, haarde karakter af denne roentgenstraaling (below 1, the side radiation had soft radiation components that concealed the essentially hard nature of these X-rays), midler,der i det væsentlige er af finansiel art (resources which are essentially financial), projektilperforeringsudstyret bestaar hovedsagelig af et flerloebet skydevaaben,der er konstrueret,saa det kan nedsaettes i et borehul,placeres i det oenskede interval og efter behag affyres elektrisk fra et kontrolsted over jorden (and electrically fired at will from surface controls, positioned at the desired interval, the bullet perforator is essentially a multi-barrelled firearm designed for being lowered into a well), reaktionen af en vaeskefase ved graensefladen er i princippet en elektrokemisk proces (the liquid phase interface reaction is essentially an electrochemical process), fjernsynsmodtagerens billedroer bestaar i det vaesentlige af det straalegenererende system, den fluorescerende skaerm og glaskolben (the cathode ray tube of the television receiver consists essentially of the beam generating system, the luminescent screen and the glass envelope). (various references)

Dutch

eenzijdige betalingen in de vorm van annuïteiten aan pensioenfondsen,voor zover deze betalingen in hoofdzaak bestemd zijn om de wiskundige reserves van deze fondsen te vergroten (unilateral annual payments into pension funds in so far as these payments are essentially designed to increase the actuarial reserves of these funds), de uitgezonden straling is vrijwel monochromatisch ten gevolge van het grote filteringeffect van de dikke buiswand (because of the high filtration effect of the heavy tube wall, the emitted radiation is essentially monochromatic), daarom moet de ontlaatstructuur cementietinsluitsels bevatten en in de eerste plaats fijnkorrelig zijn (therefore commercially tempered structures must contain cementite particles and must essentially be fine grained), de banen die door uitscheiding ontstaan,zijn duidelijk grover dan het netwerk van de gebieden die veel carbiden bevatten (the banding caused by segregation is essentially coarser than the network of carbide-rich regions), de beeldbuis van televisietoestellen bestaat in grote lijnen uit elektronenkanon, luminescentiescherm en glazen ballon (the cathode ray tube of the television receiver consists essentially of the beam generating system, the luminescent screen and the glass envelope), de hoofdzakelijk door de overheid opgerichte centrale geldscheppende instellingen (central monetary agencies of essentially public origin), de niet-gekalmeerde blokken-onrustige blokken-bestaan voornamelijk uit een mantel van tamelijk zuiver metaal,die een kern van uitscheidingen omgeeft;de grens tussen deze beide zones is zeer duidelijk (unkilled ingots consists essentially of an envelope or shell of rather pure metal - rim - surrounding a segregated centre, with a very distinct limit between the two zones), de reactie aan het grensvlak van een vloeistof is in wezen een elektrochemisch proces (the liquid phase interface reaction is essentially an electrochemical process), bij reservoirs die zijn samengesteld uit afwisselende en duidelijk van elkaar gescheiden lagen,kunnen de problemen bij het uitsluiten van water of gas worden opgelost door perscementatie toe te passen en nogmaals te perforeren (in sandwich-type reservoirs(composed of alternate and essentially separate layers)water or gas exclusion problems may be solvable by squeeze cementing and reperforating), de schietperforator is in wezen een met verscheidene lopen toegerust schietapparaat dat in de put op de gewenste diepte wordt neergelaten en vanaf het oppervlak elektrisch wordt bediend (and electrically fired at will from surface controls, positioned at the desired interval, the bullet perforator is essentially a multi-barrelled firearm designed for being lowered into a well), naar hun aard variabele inkomens (essentially variable incomes), gasliftapparatuur bestaat voornamelijk uit met tussenruimten in de pijpserie aangebrachte startkleppen;voorts kan een onderbreker worden aangebracht om gas van externe bronnene van tijd tot tijd in de put toe de laten (gas lift equipment consists essentially of inserting flow valves or flow collars at intervals in the tubing;other equipment may include an intermitter, to admit gas from outside sources into the well at intervals), het verband tussen het stralingsniveau bij de schermplaat en dat op de gebruikelijke kijkafstand, die eigenlijk gelijk is aan de gonadenafstand (the relationship between the exposure rate at the panel and the exposure rate at the usual viewing distance, which is essentially equal to the gonad distance), in hoofdzaak afgeleid ras (essentially derived variety), met minder dan l,O mm extra aluminiumverzwakking bleek de zijdelingse straling zachte componenten te hebben, die het eigenlijke harde karakter van deze rontgenstraling maskeerden (below 1, the side radiation had soft radiation components that concealed the essentially hard nature of these X-rays), middelen die in hoofdzaak van financiële aard zijn (resources which are essentially financial), de scharnierkoppeling is in wezen een verlengstuk van de boorkolom,waarbij aan het verbindingsstuk een kogelgewricht is aangebracht (the knuckle joint is essentially an extension of the drill string incorporating a universal joint at the junction). (various references)

Finnish

oleellisesti (substantially). (various references)

French

essentiellement (essentiality), fondamentalement. (various references)

German

essentiell (essential), im grunde genommen (at heart, ultimately). (various references)

Greek 

ουσιαστικά (effectively, fundamentally, virtually). (various references)

Hungarian

lényegében (in essence, intrinsically). (various references)

Indonesian

pada pokoknya. (various references)

Italian

essenzialmente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

本質的 , 本来 (by nature, initself, naturally, originally), 元来 (logically, naturally, originally, primarily). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

が�"らい (logically, naturally, originally, primarily), ほ�"しつてき, ほ�"らい (by nature, initself, naturally, originally). (various references)

Korean 

근본� �으로. (various references)

Pig Latin

essentiallyay

Portuguese

essencialidade. (various references)

Romanian

primordial (absolute, essential, foremost, initial, primary, primordial, primordially), în primul rând (chiefly, first, first and foremost, firstly, in the first flight, in the first instance, in the first place, originally, principally, to begin with, to start with). (various references)

Russian 

по существу (basically, in essence, per se, pithily, pointedly, substantially, to the point). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u suštini (effect: in effect). (various references)

Spanish

esencialmente. (various references)

Swedish

väsentligen (intrinsically), i själva verket (actuality (in), actually, in actual fact, in actuality, in effect, in fact, in point of fact, in very deed), i huvudsak, i grund och botten (at bottom, basically, in essence, under the skin). (various references)

Thai

โ�"ยพื้นฐาน (basically). (various references)

Turkish

esasen (au fond, fundamentally, radically, substantially), aslen (fundamentally, intrinsically, originally), aslında (actually, at bottom, at heart, au fond, basically, in fact, in first place, in itself, in reality, in sober fact, in very deed, indeed, originally, primarily, really, substantially, verily, virtually). (various references)

Ukranian 

істотно (fundamentally, materially, substantially), по суті (as good as, basically, in effect, materially, morally, per se, substantially). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "essentially": quintessentially. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Essentially" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: essentiall, essentyale. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: essential, saliently, sensately, sensillae, tenailles.

-3 letters: ainsells, elastins, etesians, installs, lateness, lealties, lineless, lintless, nailsets, salients, saltines, senilely, sensilla, setlines, silently, snellest, syenites, tailless, tallises, tallness, tenaille, teniases, tinselly.

-4 letters: ainsell, alienly, easiest, elastin, elysian, enisles, enlists, ensiles, entails, entases, entasis, etesian, illness, install, instals, lateens, leanest, lentils, lineate, linseys, lintels, lisente, listees.

+4 letters: electroanalysis, semicrystalline.

+5 letters: quintessentially.

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