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| Main Entry: | central |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | main, principal; in the middle |
| Synonyms: | basic, cardinal, center, chief, dominant, equidistant, essential, focal, foremost, fundamental, important, inmost, inner, interior, intermediate, key, leading, master, mean, median, mid, middle, outstanding, overriding, paramount, pivotal, predominant, primary, prime, radical, ruling, salient, significant, axial, centric, centroidal, middlemost, midmost, midway, nuclear, omphalic, umbilical |
| Antonyms: | exterior, minor, outside, peripheral, secondary |
| Main Entry: | administrative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | involved in managing or using power |
| Synonyms: | authoritative, central, commanding, controlling, deciding, decisive, directive, executive, governing, governmental, legislative, official, presiding, regulatory, ruling, bureaucratic, departmental, directing, directorial, in charge, in control, jurisdictional, managerial, organizational, policy-making, regulative, superintending, supervising, supervisory |
| 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: | 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: | chief |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | most important, essential |
| Synonyms: | arch, capital, cardinal, central, champion, consequential, controlling, crucial, effective, especial, first, foremost, grand, head, highest, key, leading, main, major, momentous, number one, outstanding, paramount, potent, predominant, preeminent, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, ruling, significant, star, stellar, superior, supreme, telling, uppermost, vital, weighty |
| Antonyms: | minor, secondary, subordinate, unimportant, unnecessary, inessential |
| Main Entry: | crucial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical, important |
| Synonyms: | acute, central, clamorous, compelling, deciding, decisive, desperate, dire, essential, imperative, insistent, momentous, necessary, pivotal, pressing, searching, showdown*, touchy, urgent, vital, climacteric, climatic, hanging by thread, high-priority, on thin ice, touch and go |
| Notes: | the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...) |
| Antonyms: | trivial, uncritical, unimportant, inessential |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | halfway |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not complete; in the middle |
| Synonyms: | center, central, equidistant, imperfect, intermediate, medial, median, mid, moderate, part, partial, betwixt and between, centermost, middlemost, midway, part-way, smack dab, smack in the middle |
| Antonyms: | complete, total, whole |
| Main Entry: | home |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domestic |
| Synonyms: | at ease, at rest, central, down home, familiar, family, homely, homey, household, in one's element, in the bosom, inland, internal, local, national, native |
| Antonyms: | business, commercial |
| Main Entry: | intermediate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | middle, in-between |
| Synonyms: | average, between, center, central, common, fair, halfway, indifferent, intermediary, intervening, mean, medial, median, mediocre, medium, mid, middling, moderate, neutral, so-so*, standard, compromising, interposed, midway, transitional |
| Antonyms: | end, extreme |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intrinsic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, inborn |
| Synonyms: | built-in, central, congenital, constitutional, deep-seated, elemental, essential, fundamental, genuine, hereditary, inbred, inherent, inmost, innate, intimate, material, native, natural, particular, peculiar, real, true, underlying, connate, constitutive, indwelling |
| Antonyms: | accidental, acquired, extrinsic, incidental, learned |
| Main Entry: | median |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | middle |
| Synonyms: | average, center, central, equidistant, halfway, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, mid, par, centermost, middlemost, midmost, midpoint, midway |
| Antonyms: | extreme, outside |
| Main Entry: | pivotal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important |
| Synonyms: | cardinal, central, critical, crucial, decisive, determining, essential, focal, middle, momentous, overriding, principal, ruling, vital, climactic, overruling |
| Antonyms: | inconsequential, unimportant, unsubstantial |
| Main Entry: | primal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | primeval; primary |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, ancient, central, chief, earliest, early, first, fundamental, highest, old, original, paramount, past, prehistoric, primitive, primordial, principal, pristine |
| Main Entry: | urban |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | city |
| Synonyms: | central, civic, civil, downtown, metropolitan, municipal, popular, public, town, village, burghal, citified, inner-city, nonrural, oppidan |
| Antonyms: | country, rural, suburban |
| Main Entry: | centrally |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | in the middle |
| Synonyms: | central, halfway, in the center, in the heart of, midway |
| Antonyms: | peripherally |
| Main Entry: | downtown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | city |
| Synonyms: | business, central, main, metropolitan, urban, midtown |
| Antonyms: | rural, suburban, residential |
| Main Entry: | equatorial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tropical |
| Synonyms: | central, torrid, tropic |
| Main Entry: | inland |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interior |
| Synonyms: | boondocks*, central, hinterland, inward, provincial, back-country, backland, heartland, midland, upcountry |
| Antonyms: | border, coastal, frontier |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | medial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | median |
| Synonyms: | average, between, center, central, halfway, innermost, intermediate, mean, middle, midway |
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