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fundamental
adjective as in basic, important
Strongest matches
central, constitutional, crucial, elemental, elementary, essential, indispensable, integral, intrinsic, major, necessary, paramount, principal, radical, significant, structural, theoretical, underlying, vital
Strong matches
bottom, cardinal, first, key, organic, original, primary, prime, primitive, requisite, supporting
Weak matches
axiological, axiomatic, basal, bottom-line, constitutive, foundational, grassroots, meat-and-potatoes, primordial, rudimentary, substratal, substrative, sustaining, underived
noun as in basic, essential part
Strongest matches
bottom line, component, cornerstone, element, factor, foundation, law, principle
Strong matches
ABCs, axiom, basis, constituent, guts, heart, nitty-gritty, rudiment, rule, theorem
Weak matches
brass tacks, coal-and-ice, principium, rock bottom, sine qua non
Example Sentences
It is a fundamental division over whether the party should become a right-wing populist cult willing to subvert democracy to keep power.
Surprisingly, this fundamental assumption had yet to be tested in an experimental study.
If the numbers predict a rebound and the scouts’ eyes don’t see fundamental deterioration, they act.
In other words, because AI mimics the brain, which has a completely alien structure to modern computers, there’s a fundamental incompatibility.
Ward has found mathematical commonalities in different contexts and believes something fundamental could be going on behind the scenes.
Everyone out there who says, “Charlie Hebdo provoked,” is making the same fundamental error.
This is a testament to the fundamental human—and American—desire to combine place and possibility.
In the meantime, we continue to support the restoration of fundamental human rights in Cuba.
Moreover, for America there is a fundamental imperative to act.
In very different but related ways, they raise fundamental questions irrespective of race about how policing gets done.
Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.
What the ear hears is the fundamental pitch only; the overtones harmonize with the primary or fundamental tone, and enrich it.
Not only have its fundamental principles been fully vindicated but in most details the working of the measure has been successful.
Judge for yourself the difficulty surrounding the remainder of the symbols and fundamental truths of christianity.
And hence the reader can notice the fundamental difference between all other methods and mine.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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