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.
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• 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.