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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | inherent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, hereditary |
| Synonyms: | built-in, characteristic, congenital, constitutional, deep-rooted, deep-seated, distinctive, elementary, essential, fixed, fundamental, genetic, immanent, implicit, inborn, inbred, indigenous, indispensable, individual, ingrained, inherited, innate, inner, instinctive, integral, integrated, internal, intimate, intrinsic, inward, latent, native, natural, original, part and parcel, resident, subjective, connate, in the grain, inbuilt, indwelling, running in the family, unalienable |
| Antonyms: | acquired, external, extrinsic, incidental, learned, added |
| 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: | 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: | 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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