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Main Entry: central
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: main, principal; in the middle

Synonyms:

axial, basic, cardinal, center, centric, centroidal, chief, dominant, equidistant, essential, focal, foremost, fundamental, important, inmost, inner, interior, intermediate, key, leading, master, mean, median, mid, middle, middlemost, midmost, midway, nuclear, omphalic, outstanding, overriding, paramount, pivotal, predominant, primary, prime, radical, ruling, salient, significant, umbilical

Antonyms:

exterior, minor, outside, peripheral, secondary
Main Entry: administrative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: involved in managing or using power

Synonyms:

authoritative, bureaucratic, central, commanding, controlling, deciding, decisive, departmental, directing, directive, directorial, executive, governing, governmental, in charge, in control, jurisdictional, legislative, managerial, official, organizational, policy-making, presiding, regulative, regulatory, ruling, 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, substratal, underlying, vital

Antonyms:

additional, extra, inessential, nonessential, outside, peripheral, secondary
Main Entry: capital
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: main, essential

Synonyms:

basic, cardinal, central, chief, controlling, dominant, first, foremost, fundamental, important, leading, major, number one, outstanding, overruling, paramount, predominant, preeminent, primary, prime, principal, prominent, underlying, vital
Notes: the word capitol is from the Roman Capitoline Hill and the similarity between capitol and capital is purely coincidental; capitol applies to the building and capital to the seat of a government

Antonyms:

extra, minor, nonessential, secondary, unimportant
Main Entry: cardinal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: important, key

Synonyms:

basal, basic, central, chief, constitutive, essential, first, foremost, fundamental, greatest, highest, indispensable, leading, main, overriding, overruling, paramount, pivotal, preeminent, primary, prime, principal, ruling, vital

Antonyms:

inessential, insignificant, minor, negligible, secondary, unimportant
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:

inessential, minor, secondary, subordinate, unimportant, unnecessary
Main Entry: convenient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nearby

Synonyms:

accessible, adjacent, adjoining, all around, at elbows, at fingertips, at hand, available, central, close, close at hand, close-by, contiguous, easy to reach, handy, immediate, in neighborhood, next, next door, nigh, on deck, on tap, under one's nose, within reach

Antonyms:

distant, far, inconvenient, out-of-the-way, unavailable
Main Entry: crucial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: critical, important

Synonyms:

acute, central, clamorous, climacteric, climatic, compelling, deciding, decisive, desperate, dire, essential, hanging by thread, high-priority, imperative, insistent, momentous, necessary, on thin ice, pivotal, pressing, searching, showdown, touch and go, touchy, urgent, vital

Antonyms:

inessential, trivial, uncritical, unimportant
Main Entry: fundamental
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: basic, important

Synonyms:

axiological, axiomatic, basal, bottom, bottom-line, cardinal, central, constitutional, constitutive, crucial, elemental, elementary, essential, first, foundational, grass-roots, indispensable, integral, intrinsic, key, major, meat-and-potatoes, necessary, organic, original, paramount, primary, prime, primitive, primordial, principal, radical, requisite, rudimentary, significant, structural, substratal, substrative, supporting, sustaining, theoretical, underived, underlying, vital

Antonyms:

additional, advanced, auxiliary, extra, minor, secondary, subordinate, trivial, unimportant
Main Entry: halfway
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not complete; in the middle

Synonyms:

betwixt and between, center, centermost, central, equidistant, imperfect, intermediate, medial, median, mid, middlemost, midway, moderate, part, part-way, partial, smack dab, smack in the middle

Antonyms:

complete, total, whole
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