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underived

[uhn-di-rahyvd] / ˌʌn dɪˈraɪvd /

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fundamental adj.
original adj.
primary/prime adj.
primitive adj.

ADJECTIVE

fundamental

Synonyms

STRONGEST

central constitutional crucial elemental elementary essential indispensable integral intrinsic major necessary paramount principal radical significant structural theoretical underlying vital

STRONG

bottom cardinal first key organic original primary prime primitive requisite supporting

WEAK

axiological axiomatic basal bottom-line constitutive foundational grassroots meat-and-potatoes primordial rudimentary substratal substrative sustaining

Antonyms

STRONGEST

accessory auxiliary extrinsic inessential insignificant learned least lesser minor needless nonessential secondary trivial unimportant unnecessary

WEAK

additional advanced extra subordinate

ADJECTIVE

original

Synonyms

STRONGEST

authentic initial

STRONG

aboriginal beginning first infant opening pioneer primary starting

WEAK

archetypal autochthonous commencing early elementary embryonic first-hand genuine inceptive introductory prime primeval primitive primordial pristine prototypal rudimental rudimentary underivative

Antonyms

STRONG

last

WEAK

borrowed derivative hackneyed latest newest old used worn

ADJECTIVE

primary/prime

Synonyms

WEAK

basal beginning bottom central elemental elementary essential first foundational introductory meat-and-potatoes original primitive principal radical rudimentary simple three R's ultimate underivative underlying

Antonyms

WEAK

auxiliary latest least minor secondary supplemental

ADJECTIVE

primitive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

archaic basic primeval primordial pristine undeveloped

STRONG

essential first fundamental old primary

WEAK

earliest early elementary primal substratal underivative underlying unevolved

Antonyms

STRONGEST

modern new

STRONG

auxiliary

WEAK

cultured current present sophisticated

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underived

The youth is seeking for himself a purely human merit, indigenous and underived.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.

"Firstly,—if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

Consciousness is, first, immediate consciousness, and its reference to the object accordingly the simple and underived certainty of it.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

If their rights are inherent and underived, they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel

This underived, independent, immutable being is a Person who can speak to men, and can say 'I am.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander

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