- 1
In a fundamental, essential or basic manner.
- They've added some fancy features, but it's basically still a crappy car.
- 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.
syn. fundamentally · more often than not