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Main Entry:
basic [bey-sik]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: elementary, fundamental
Synonyms: basal, capital, central, chief, elemental, essential, indispensable, inherent, intrinsic, key, main, necessary, primary, primitive, principal, radical, substratal, underlying, vital
Antonyms: additional, extra, inessential, nonessential, outside, peripheral, secondary
Main Entry: bare
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: simple, unadorned
Synonyms: austere, bald, basic, blunt, chaste, cold, essential, hard, literal, meager, mere, modest, scant, severe, sheer, simple, spare, stark, unembellished, unornamented
Notes: bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal
Antonyms: adorned, decorated
Main Entry: bottom
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lowest; fundamental
Synonyms: basal, base, basement, basic, foundational, ground, last, lowermost, lowest, meat-and-potatoes, nethermost, primary, radical, rock-bottom, underlying, undermost
Antonyms: highest, top, unnecessary
Example Sentences
  • Hard as it can be to land a job these days, getting one may not be nearly enough for basic economic security.
  • One other important goal is to significantly reduce the failure rate in basic education.
  • Well, you can find that astonishing and stupendous principle in any basic micro-economic undergraduate elementary textbook.
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Main Entry: capital
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: main, essential
Synonyms: basic, cardinal, central, chief, controlling, dominant, first, foremost, fundamental, important, leading, major, number one, outstanding, overruling, paramount, predominant, preeminent, primary, prime, principal, prominent, underlying, vital
Antonyms: extra, minor, nonessential, secondary, unimportant
Main Entry: cardinal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: important, key
Synonyms: basal, basic, central, chief, constitutive, essential, first, foremost, fundamental, greatest, highest, indispensable, leading, main, overriding, overruling, paramount, pivotal, preeminent, primary, prime, principal, ruling, vital
Antonyms: inessential, insignificant, minor, negligible, secondary, unimportant
Main Entry: central
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: main, principal; in the middle
Synonyms: axial, basic, cardinal, center, centric, centroidal, chief, dominant, equidistant, essential, focal, foremost, fundamental, important, inmost, inner, interior, intermediate, key, leading, master, mean, median, mid, middle, middlemost, midmost, midway, nuclear, omphalic, outstanding, overriding, paramount, pivotal, predominant, primary, prime, radical, ruling, salient, significant, umbilical
Antonyms: exterior, minor, outside, peripheral, secondary
Main Entry: component
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: constituent
Synonyms: basic, composing, elemental, fundamental, inherent, integral, intrinsic, part and parcel of, part of
Main Entry: constituent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: component, part
Synonyms: basic, combining, composing, constituting, division, elemental, essential, factor, forming, fraction, fundamental, ingredient, integral, portion
Antonyms: whole
Main Entry: doctrine
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opinion; principle
Synonyms: article, article of faith, attitude, axiom, basic, belief, canon, concept, convention, conviction, credenda, creed, declaration, dogma, fundamental, gospel, implantation, inculcation, indoctrination, instruction, position, precept, pronouncement, propaganda, proposition, regulation, rule, statement, teaching, tenet, tradition, universal law, unwritten rule
Antonyms: disbelief, heterodoxy, skepticism, unbelief
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