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foundation - 20 thesaurus results
| 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: | foundation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | established institution |
| Synonyms: | association, charity, company, corporation, endowment, establishment, guild, inauguration, institute, organization, plantation, settlement, society, set-up, trusteeship |
| Main Entry: | core |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | center, gist |
| Synonyms: | amount, base, basis, body, bottom line, bulk, burden, consequence, corpus, crux, essence, focus, foundation, heart, import, importance, kernel, mass, meat*, meat and potatoes*, middle, midst, nub, nucleus, origin, pith, pivot, purport, quick, root, significance, staple, substance, thrust, upshot, main idea, midpoint, nitty gritty |
| Antonyms: | covering, exterior, outside, perimeter, surface, exteriority |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cornerstone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vital element |
| Synonyms: | anchor, base, essential, foundation, keystone, mainstay, pillar, key element, linchpin, main ingredient, mainspring |
| Main Entry: | criterion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | test, gauge for judgment |
| Synonyms: | archetype, basis, benchmark, canon, example, exemplar, fact, foundation, law, measure, model, norm, opinion, original, paradigm, pattern, precedent, principle, proof, prototype, rule, scale, standard, touchstone, yardstick, point of comparison |
| Antonyms: | change, conjecture, fancy, guess, possibility, probability |
| Main Entry: | derivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | root, source |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, basis, beginning, descent, etymology, foundation, genealogy, inception, origin, provenance, spin-off, well, wellspring, provenience, whence it came |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, consequence, effect, end, outgrowth, result |
| Main Entry: | fund |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repository, reserve |
| Synonyms: | armamentarium, capital, endowment, foundation, hoard, inventory, kitty*, mine, pool*, reservoir, source, stock, store, storehouse, supply, treasury, trust, vein |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fundamental |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basic, essential part |
| Synonyms: | axiom, basis, bottom line*, brass tacks*, component, constituent, cornerstone, element, factor, foundation, guts*, heart, law, nitty-gritty*, principle, rock bottom*, rule, theorem, ABCs, coal and ice, principium, rudiment, sine qua non |
| Antonyms: | addition, auxiliary, extra, subordinate, trivia |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | hypothesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theory |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, assignment, assumption, axiom, basis, belief, conclusion, condition, conjecture, data, deduction, demonstration, derivation, explanation, foundation, ground, guess, inference, interpretation, layout, philosophy, plan, position, postulate, premise, principle, proposal, proposition, rationale, reason, scheme, shot in the dark*, speculation, suggestion, supposition, surmise, system, term, theorem, thesis, apriority, attribution, lemma, presupposition, starting point, tentative law |
| Antonyms: | measurement, proof, reality, truth, calcualtion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | museum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for viewing artifacts or |
| Synonyms: | building, depository, exhibition, foundation, gallery, hall, institution, library, menagerie, repository, salon, storehouse, treasury, vault, exhibits archive |
| Main Entry: | nucleus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | core; basis for something's |
| Synonyms: | center, crux, embryo, focus, foundation, germ, heart, hub, kernel, matter, nub, pivot, premise, principle, seed, spark, beginning bud |
| Antonyms: | exterior, outside, exteriority |
| Main Entry: | pedestal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support for something |
| Synonyms: | base, bed, bottom, foot, foundation, platform, podium, stand, support, mounting, plinth, substructure |
| Main Entry: | preliminary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | introductory event; beginning |
| Synonyms: | foundation, groundwork, initiation, introduction, opening, preamble, preface, prelude, preparation, start, first round, prelims |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, finale, closing |
| 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: | rudiments |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fundamentals |
| Synonyms: | basics, foundation, guts*, heart, nitty-gritty, ABCs, beginnings, elements, essentials, first principles, principles |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ruins |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buildings that are dilapidated |
| Synonyms: | ashes, debris, destruction, detritus, foundation, remains, residue, rubble, vestiges, wreck, wreckage, relics, remnants, traces |
| Main Entry: | theory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypothesis, belief |
| Synonyms: | approach, argument, assumption, base, basis, code, concept, conditions, conjecture, doctrine, dogma, feeling, foundation, grounds, guess, hunch, idea, ideology, impression, method, outlook, philosophy, plan, position, postulate, premise, presentiment, presumption, proposal, provision, rationale, scheme, shot*, speculation, stab*, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspicion, system, theorem, thesis, understanding, codification, formularization, guesswork, supposal, systemization |
| Antonyms: | certainty, fact, proof, reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | training |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preparation |
| Synonyms: | background, basics, buildup, cultivation, discipline, drill, education, exercise, foundation, groundwork, guidance, indoctrination, instruction, practice, seasoning, teaching, tuition, tutelage, upbringing, workout*, chalk talk, coaching, domestication, grounding, preliminaries, principles, readying, schooling, sharpening, tune-up, warm-up* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | validity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | genuineness, lawfulness |
| Synonyms: | authority, cogency, effectiveness, efficacy, force, foundation, gravity, grounds, legality, persuasiveness, point, potency, power, punch, right, soundness, strength, substance, weight, legitimacy, validness |
| Antonyms: | invalidity |
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