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fundamental - 20 thesaurus results
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: 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
Main Entry: axiom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: principle
Synonyms: adage, aphorism, apothegm, device, dictum, fundamental, law, maxim, moral, postulate, precept, proposition, proverb, saying, theorem, truism, truth
Antonyms: absurdity, ambiguity, foolishness, nonsense, paradox
Main Entry: axiomatic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: understood; aphoristic
Synonyms: absolute, accepted, assumed, certain, fundamental, given, indubitable, manifest, obvious, proverbial, self-evident, aphoristic, apothegmatic, presupposed, unquestioned
Antonyms: misunderstood, questionable, uncertain
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: 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: component
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: constituent
Synonyms: basic, elemental, fundamental, inherent, integral, intrinsic, composing, part and parcel of, part of
Main Entry: doctrine
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opinion; principle
Synonyms: article, article of faith, attitude, axiom, basic, belief, canon, concept, convention, conviction, creed, declaration, dogma, fundamental, gospel, indoctrination, instruction, position, precept, pronouncement, propaganda, proposition, regulation, rule, statement, teaching, tenet, tradition, credenda, implantation, inculcation, universal law, unwritten rule
Antonyms: disbelief, skepticism, heterodoxy, unbelief
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: essential
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: necessity, basic
Synonyms: ABCs, bottom line*, brass tacks*, condition, element, essence, fire and ice, fundamental, groceries*, guts*, heart, meat and potatoes*, must, name of the game*, nitty-gritty*, nuts and bolts*, part and parcel, precondition, prerequisite, principle, quintessence, requirement, requisite, rudiment, sine qua non, stuff, substance, vital part, where one's at
Notes: the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...)
Antonyms: accessory, auxiliary, nonessential, subsidiary, throwaway, trivia
Main Entry: incipient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: developing
Synonyms: basic, beginning, elementary, embryonic, fundamental, inchoate, initial, initiative, introductory, originating, start, commencing, inceptive, initiatory, nascent
Antonyms: developed, grown, mature
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: ingrained
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deep-rooted
Synonyms: built-in, chronic, confirmed, congenital, constitutional, deep-seated, fixed, fundamental, hereditary, inborn, inbred, indelible, inherent, innate, intrinsic, inveterate, rooted, implanted, in the blood, inbuilt, indwelling, ineradicable
Antonyms: superficial, surface
Main Entry: ingredient
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: component of concoction
Synonyms: additive, constituent, element, factor, fixing, fundamental, innards, integral, making, part, part and parcel, piece, integrant
Antonyms: whole
Main Entry: initial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beginning, primary
Synonyms: antecedent, basic, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, first, foremost, fundamental, inchoate, incipient, infant, initiative, introductory, leading, opening, original, pioneer, virgin, commencing, germinal, headmost, inaugural, inceptive, initiatory, nascent
Antonyms: final, last, closing
Main Entry: key
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: essential, important
Synonyms: basic, chief, crucial, decisive, fundamental, indispensable, leading, main, major, material, pivotal, primary, principal, vital
Antonyms: insignificant, nonessential, unimportant, inessential
Main Entry: metaphysical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not physical; without physical presence
Synonyms: abstract, abstruse, deep, difficult, esoteric, eternal, fundamental, high-flown, ideal, immaterial, impalpable, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, intellectual, mystical, philosophical, preternatural, profound, recondite, spiritual, superhuman, superior, supernatural, theoretical, transcendental, unearthly, universal, unreal, unsubstantial, bodiless, discarnate, jesuitic, nonmaterial, nonphysical, numinous, oversubtle, supermundane, suprahuman, supramundane, supranatural, unfleshly, unphysical
Antonyms: concrete, material, objective, physical, real, solid, substantial
Main Entry: minimal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: littlest, slightest
Synonyms: basal, basic, essential, fundamental, least, lowest, minimum, nominal, token, least possible, smallest
Antonyms: maximum, most
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