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basal - 16 thesaurus results
Main Entry: basic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: elementary, fundamental
Synonyms: basal, capital, central, chief, elemental, essential, indispensable, inherent, intrinsic, key, main, necessary, primary, primitive, principal, radical, underlying, vital, substratal
Antonyms: additional, extra, nonessential, outside, peripheral, secondary, inessential
Main Entry: bottom
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lowest; fundamental
Synonyms: basal, base, basement, basic, ground, last, lowest, primary, radical, underlying, foundational, lowermost, meat-and-potatoes, nethermost, rock-bottom, undermost
Antonyms: highest, top, unnecessary
Main Entry: cardinal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: important, key
Synonyms: basal, basic, central, chief, essential, first, foremost, fundamental, highest, indispensable, leading, main, overriding, paramount, pivotal, preeminent, primary, prime, principal, ruling, vital, constitutive, greatest, overruling
Antonyms: insignificant, minor, negligible, secondary, unimportant, inessential
Main Entry: elementary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: simple, basic
Synonyms: ABCs, abecedarian, basal, beginning, child's play, clear, duck soup*, easy, elemental, essential, facile, foundational, fundamental, initial, introductory, meat and potatoes*, original, plain, prefatory, preliminary, primary, primitive, primo, rudimentary, simplest, simplex, simplified, straightforward, substratal, uncomplex, uncomplicated, underlying
Antonyms: abstruse, advanced, complex, complicated, compound, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, secondary
Main Entry: fundamental
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: basic, important
Synonyms: axiomatic, basal, bottom, cardinal, central, constitutional, crucial, elemental, elementary, essential, first, indispensable, integral, intrinsic, key, major, necessary, organic, original, paramount, primary, prime, primitive, primordial, principal, radical, requisite, rudimentary, significant, structural, supporting, theoretical, underlying, vital, axiological, bottom-line, constitutive, foundational, grass-roots, meat-and-potatoes, substratal, substrative, sustaining, underived
Antonyms: additional, advanced, auxiliary, extra, minor, secondary, subordinate, trivial, unimportant
Main Entry: indispensable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: necessary
Synonyms: basal, basic, cardinal, crucial, essential, fundamental, imperative, key, needed, prerequisite, primary, required, requisite, vital, necessitous, needful
Antonyms: dispensable, needless, nonessential, redundant, superfluous, unnecessary
Main Entry: minimal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: littlest, slightest
Synonyms: basal, basic, essential, fundamental, least, lowest, minimum, nominal, token, least possible, smallest
Notes: nominal means insignificantly small; minimal means the least possible or smallest in amount and degree
Antonyms: maximum, most
Main Entry: organic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: basic, natural
Synonyms: animate, basal, biological, constitutional, elemental, essential, fundamental, inherent, innate, integral, live, living, necessary, original, primary, prime, primitive, principal, structural, vital, amoebic, anatomical, biotic, cellular, nuclear, plasmic
Antonyms: inorganic, man-made, unnatural
Main Entry: rudimentary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: basic, fundamental
Synonyms: abecedarian, basal, beginning, early, elemental, elementary, embryonic, immature, initial, introductory, primary, primitive, simple, undeveloped, larval, nuts-and-bolts, simplest, uncompleted, vestigial
Antonyms: additional, advanced, derivative, developed, extra, nonessential
Main Entry: underlying
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fundamental, latent
Synonyms: basal, basic, bottom, cardinal, concealed, critical, crucial, elemental, elementary, essential, hidden, indispensable, intrinsic, lurking, necessary, nitty-gritty*, nub, primary, prime, primitive, radical, root, veiled, vital, bottom-line, needful, substratal
Antonyms: secondary
Main Entry: radical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fundamental, basic
Synonyms: basal, bottom, cardinal, constitutional, deep-seated, essential, inherent, innate, intrinsic, native, natural, organic, original, primal, primary, primitive, profound, thoroughgoing, underlying, vital, foundational, meat-and-potatoes
Antonyms: extrinsic, nonessential, superficial
Main Entry: essential
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: basic, fundamental
Synonyms: absolute, basal, cardinal, cold, complete, congenital, constitutional, deep-seated, elemental, elementary, ideal, inborn, inbred, inherent, innate, intrinsic, key, main, material, meat and potatoes*, name of the game*, nitty-gritty*, nub, perfect, primary, prime, primitive, principal, quintessential, underlying, connate, substratal
Antonyms: atypical, minor, secondary
Main Entry: primary/prime
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: basic, fundamental
Synonyms: basal, beginning, bottom, central, elemental, elementary, essential, first, foundational, introductory, meat-and-potatoes, original, primitive, principal, radical, rudimentary, simple, three R's, ultimate, underivative, underived, underlying
Antonyms: auxiliary, secondary, supplemental
Related Words
Main Entry: bottom
Part of Speech: adjective, noun
Related
Adjectives:
bottom, basad, basal, based on, benthonic, built on, caudad, founded on, fundamental, grounded on, nethermost, undermost
Main Entry: education
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
self, abecedarian, abiological, academic, accredited, acroatic, apt, basal, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, chrestomathic, coeducational, collegiate, communicatory, decanal, didactic, didascalic, disciplinal, docile, doctrinal, donnish, educable, educational, educative, emeritus, expository, extracurricular, extramural, fledged, heuristic, in leading strings, inkhorn, instructive, intercollegiate, interscholastic, intramural, learned, misteaching, nod, polytechnic, postdoctoral, postgraduate, predoctoral, professorial, question, scholarly, scholastic, school, studious, tardy, taught, teachable, teaching, tenured, unedifying
Main Entry: life
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
above ground, aerobic, agamic, agrestian, alive, all alive and kicking, anaerobic, animated, archesporial, autacoidal, azzardly, bacillary, basal, bimanous, biodegradable, biomorphic, bionomic, biped, bircrural, blissom, breathing, celative, crepitous, cryptic, dacryopyostic, deglutitious, diallel, digenous, digoneutic, ditokous, diurnal, dizygotic, edentate, endothermic, epigamic, exogenous, gamic, haploid, hematic, hyperosmic, impar, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, indefatigable, lively, living, luxuriant, mammillated, marine, mercurial, metapneustic, microsmatic, motor, multilocular, muriform, myogenic, nizzertit, on this side of the grave, oviparous, ovoviviparous, palamate, paratonic, parthenic, parturient, pelagic, promethean, quick, rank, recuperated, refreshed, refreshing, ruttish, sedentary, sphygmic, spodogenous, stenobathic, tenacious of life, totipotent, untired, unwearied, urled, vegete, vital, vivacious, vivified, vivifying, yeld, zoetic
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