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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fundamental, latent |
| Synonyms: | basal, basic, bottom, bottom-line, cardinal, concealed, critical, crucial, elemental, elementary, essential, hidden, indispensable, intrinsic, lurking, necessary, needful, nitty-gritty, nub, primary, prime, primitive, radical, root, substratal, veiled, vital |
| Antonyms: | secondary |
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| Main Entry: | center |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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abstemious, adiaphorous, average, axial, azygous, central, centrical, centripetal, commonplace, concentric, entad, equatorial, equidistant, focal, fulcrate, geocentric, homocentric, intermediate, mean, medial, mediate, mediterranean, mesial, mesne, mesothetic, mid, middle, middle-class, middlemost, middling, midmost, neutral, paracentral, phallocentric, straight, tapsell, umbilical, vorticiform, vortiginous
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| Concept: | Base. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-adjectives
bottom, undermost, nethermost; fundamental; founded on, based on, grounded on, built on.
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| Antonyms: | summit |
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| Concept: | Beginning. |
| Category: | 2. CONSECUTIVE ORDER |
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-adjectives
beginning; initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive, introductory, incipient; proemial, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative; embryonic, rudimental; primogenial; primeval, primitive, primordial (old); aboriginal; natal, nascent., first, foremost, leading; maiden., begun; just begun
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| Antonyms: | end |
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| Concept: | [Constant antecedent] Cause. |
| Category: | 1. CONSTANCY OF SEQUENCE IN EVENTS |
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caused; causal, original; primary, primitive, primordial; aboriginal; protogenal; radical; embryonic, embryotic; in embryo, in ovo; seminal, germinal; at the bottom of; connate, having a common origin.
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| Antonyms: | effect |
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| Concept: | Motive. |
| Category: | 2. Causes of volition |
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-adjectives
impulsive, motive; suasive, suasory, persuasive, persuasory, hortative, hortatory; protreptical; inviting, tempting; suasive, suasory; seductive, attractive; fascinating (pleasing); provocative (exciting)., induced; disposed; persuadable (docile); spellbound; instinct with, smitten with, infatuated; inspired; by.
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| Antonyms: | absence of motive |
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| Concept: | Vegetable. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
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vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous; herbaceous, herbal; botanic; sylvan, silvan; arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous, ligneous; wooden, leguminous; bosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous.
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