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footing - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | footing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation, basis |
| Synonyms: | basement, bedrock, bottom, establishment, foot, foothold, ground, groundwork, infrastructure, installation, seat, seating, settlement, underpinning, warrant, resting place, substratum, substructure, understructure |
| Main Entry: | footing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social status |
| Synonyms: | capacity, character, condition, grade, place, position, rank, relationship, situation, standing, state, station, terms, relations |
| Main Entry: | circumstances |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of affairs in one's life |
| Synonyms: | assets, capital, class, command, degree, footing, income, lifestyle, lot, means, net worth, outlook, position, precedence, prestige, property, prosperity, rank, rating, resources, situation, sphere, standing, state, station, status, substance, chances, dowry, financial status, prospects, times, way of life, worldly goods |
| Main Entry: | groundwork |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basis, fundamentals |
| Synonyms: | background, base, bedrock*, cornerstone*, footing, foundation, ground, infrastructure, origin, preparation, root, underpinning, ABCs, preliminaries, substratum, understructure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infrastructure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation |
| Synonyms: | base, footing, framework, groundwork, root, support, underpinning |
| Main Entry: | root |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | base, core |
| Synonyms: | basis, bedrock, bottom, cause, center, crux, derivation, essence, footing, foundation, fountain, fountainhead, fundamental, germ, ground, groundwork, heart, inception, infrastructure, marrow, motive, nub, nucleus, occasion, origin, pith, provenance, quick, quintessence, reason, rock bottom*, seat, seed, soul, source, stem, stuff, substance, tuber, underpinning, well, beginnings, essentiality, mainspring, provenience, radicle, radix, rhizome, starting point, substratum |
| Notes: | a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another |
| Antonyms: | derivation, derivative, sprout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | standing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | position, rank |
| Synonyms: | cachet, capacity, character, condition, consequence, credit, dignity, eminence, estimation, footing, place, prestige, reputation, scene, situation, slot, state, station, stature, status, term, repute |
| Main Entry: | status |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rank |
| Synonyms: | cachet, caliber, capacity, character, condition, consequence, degree, dignity, distinction, eminence, footing, grade, merit, mode, place, position, prestige, prominence, quality, rating, renown, situation, stage, standing, state, station, stature, worth |
| Main Entry: | foothold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ledge |
| Synonyms: | crevice, footing, hold, niche, perch, purchase, space, toehold |
| Main Entry: | base |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation |
| Synonyms: | basement, basis, bed, bedrock, bottom, foot, footing, ground, groundwork, infrastructure, pedestal, rest, root, seat, seating, stand, support, underpinning, substratum, substructure |
| Antonyms: | top |
| Main Entry: | basis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical foundation |
| Synonyms: | base, bed, bottom, foot, footing, ground, groundwork, rest, seat, support, resting place, substructure |
| Main Entry: | bottom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation |
| Synonyms: | base, basement, basis, bed, bedrock, belly, floor, foot, footing, ground, groundwork, nadir, pedestal, rest, seat, sole, support, terra firma, underneath, underside, deepest part, depths, lowest part, nether portion, pediment, substratum, substructure, underbelly |
| Antonyms: | top |
| Main Entry: | foundation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basis for something physical or mental |
| Synonyms: | authority, base, basics, bed, bedrock, bottom, bottom line*, brass tacks*, foot, footing, ground, groundwork, guts*, heart*, infrastructure, justification, nitty-gritty*, nub*, nuts and bolts*, prop, reason, root, stay, support, underpinning, ABCs, substratum, substructure, understructure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flat surface; level |
| Synonyms: | condition, degree, extension, face, facet, footing, grade, horizontal, obverse, position, sphere, stratum |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | standing in a system, often a social one |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, authority, birth, blood, cachet, capacity, caste, circumstance, class, classification, condition, consequence, degree, dignity, distinction, division, echelon, estate, esteem, family, footing, grade, hierarchy, level, nobility, note, order, pecking order, pedigree, place, position, primacy, privilege, quality, reputation, seniority, situation, slot, sort, sovereignty, sphere, state, station, stature, status, stock, stratum, supremacy, type, paramountcy, parentage |
| Main Entry: | situation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place of activity |
| Synonyms: | direction, footing, latitude, locale, location, position, post, seat, setting, site, spot, stage, station, where, whereabouts, bearings, locality, locus, longitude |
| Main Entry: | stage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | level, period within structure or |
| Synonyms: | degree, division, footing, grade, juncture, lap, leg, length, moment, node, notch, phase, plane, point, rung, standing, status, step, point in time, system date |
| Main Entry: | state |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | condition or mode of being |
| Synonyms: | accompaniment, attitude, capacity, case, category, character, circumstance, circumstances, contingency, element, environment, essential, estate, event, eventuality, fix, footing, form, frame of mind, humor, imperative, juncture, limitation, mood, nature, occasion, occurrence, outlook, pass, phase, plight, position, posture, predicament, prerequisite, proviso, reputation, requirement, shape, situation, spirits, stand, standing, station, status, stipulation, time, welfare, chances, state of affairs |
| Main Entry: | support |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that holds up structure |
| Synonyms: | abutment, agency, back, backing, base, bed, bedding, block, brace, buttress, collar, column, cornerstone, device, foothold, footing, foundation, groundwork, guide, hold, lining, means, medium, pillar, platform, pole, post, prop, rampart, reinforcement, rest, rib, rod, shore, stake, stanchion, stay, timber, underpinning, flotation, fulcrum, stave, stiffener, stilt, substratum, substructure, sustentation |
| Main Entry: | basis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation for belief, action |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, assumption, authority, axiom, backbone, background, backing, base, bedrock, cause, center, core, crux, data, dictum, essence, essential, evidence, explanation, footing, fundamental, heart, infrastructure, justification, keynote, keystone, law, nexus, nucleus, postulate, premise, presumption, principle, proof, reason, root, sanction, security, source, support, theorem, theory, underpinning, warrant, chief ingredient, hard fact, presupposition, principal element, rudiment, substratum |
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