Definition
Really, basically, fundamentally.
In Context
- "They concerted Matters, and all at once fell to selling off their Stock, giving out daily Reports that they would be no longer concern'd, that it was a losing Trade, that the Fund at bottom was good for nothing."
- "I know you are a good man at bottom."
- ""Tess is queer." "But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me.""
- "At bottom I supposed that he had mistaken another book for mine."
- "As the New Year opened, the survival of Western democracy rested, at bottom, on the case the U.S. would make for it."
- "At bottom, he does not accept any authority higher than himself."
Also Said As
- essentially
- in the final analysis
- fundamentally
See Also
- at the bottom of
- bottom line