foundations

NOUN

basis for something physical or mental

Synonyms

STRONGEST

authority base bedrock groundwork infrastructure support

STRONG

ABCs basics bed bottom foot footing ground guts heart justification nitty-gritty nub prop reason root stay substratum substructure understructure

WEAK

bottom line brass tacks nuts and bolts underpinning

Antonyms

STRONG

cowardice exterior exteriority fear outside top

NOUN

established institution

Synonyms

STRONGEST

association charity company corporation endowment establishment institute organization society

STRONG

guild inauguration plantation settlement trusteeship

WEAK

set-up

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Disclosure: Amazon, Apple and Common Cause have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

Laying the foundations, though, on an island where over-mining has left the landscape looking more like a moonscape, has been far from straightforward.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The findings support the possibility that gravity and spacetime have both informational and thermodynamic foundations.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

In Friday’s video, Smith said that she’s been researching charities and foundations to support and included links to GoFundMe pages for children who are battling cancer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

If he had done nothing else, laying all these foundations of analytical mathematics would have made Descartes a key figure in seventeenth-century science.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin