Word Meanings - FUNDAMENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some
Additional info about word: FUNDAMENTAL
Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass , the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. -- Fundamental chord , a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. -- Fundamental colors, red, green, and violet-blue. See Primary colors, under Color.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FUNDAMENTAL)
- Constitutional
- Fundamental
- legal
- lawful
- legitimate
- natural
- Organic
- constitutional
- radical
- Radical
- Original
- fundamental
- thoroughgoing
- unsparing
- extreme
- entire
- innate
- essential
- immanent
- ingrained
- underived
- deep-seated
Related words: (words related to FUNDAMENTAL)
- NATURALIST
1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell. - ORGANICALNESS
The quality or state of being organic. - INGRAIN
1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. -- - NATURAL STEEL
Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore. - LEGALITY
1. The state or quality of being letter of the law. - CONSTITUTIONALIST
One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist. - EXTREMELESS
Having no extremes; infinite. - RADICALNESS
Quality or state of being radical. - NATURAL
Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info) - FUNDAMENTALLY
Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke. - ENTIRELY
1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. 2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. To highest God entirely pray. Spenser. - NATURALIZE
1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of - LEGITIMATE
1. Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. 2. Lawfully begotten; - INNATE
Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive. There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common - INNATENESS
The quality of being innate. - LEGITIMATELY
In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely. - LEGALIZE
To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal. - NATURALNESS
The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature. - LEGALLY
In a legal manner. - ESSENTIAL
Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones. (more info) 1. Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. Majestic as the - SUPERNATURALNESS
The quality or state of being supernatural. - ABORIGINALLY
Primarily. - PRETERNATURALITY
Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith. - SPORADICAL
Sporadic. - PARIPINNATE
Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end. - INORGANICAL
Inorganic. Locke. - EQUIRADICAL
Equally radical. Coleridge. - IMPARIPINNATE
Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet. - ILLEGAL
Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.