Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

at bottom

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English

Syllables: at bot-tom
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Really, basically, fundamentally.

Example Sentences

"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."

Phrases

at the bottom of bottom line

Frequently Paired Words

at the bottom of bottom line

Synonyms

essentially in the final analysis at heart deep down inside in spite of appearance

Questions

What does at bottom mean?: Really, basically, fundamentally.

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