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most basic

ADJECTIVE

elementary, fundamental

Synonyms

STRONGEST

elemental essential key main necessary primary primitive underlying vital

STRONG

capital central chief principal radical

WEAK

basal indispensable inherent intrinsic substratal

Antonyms

STRONGEST

auxiliary inessential insignificant minor nonessential secondary unimportant unnecessary

STRONG

extra

WEAK

additional outside peripheral

Example Sentences

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At the most basic level, computer memory stores information as 0s and 1s by controlling how easily electricity can pass through a material.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

And even the most basic displays of bipartisan comity become newsworthy.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

Companies like Cerebras seek to produce chips that allow AI companies to generate tokens—the most basic unit of computing output—as quickly as possible and lower their costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

More than 50 years after humans first flew around the Moon, Artemis astronauts will repeat the feat on Monday and use the most basic instrument to study it: their eyes.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Perhaps the most famous enslaved man in America at the time, William Lee was not granted the most basic recognition of his birth or death.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis