Synonyms for Underlying:

adj.
• bottom
- base
- elementary
- foundational
- fundamental
- lowest
- meat-and-potatoes
- rock-bottom
- rock bottom
• latent
- in abeyance
- unrealized
- implied
- suspended
• nethermost
- nether most
- nether-most
• all
- underlying
• basic
- in dispensable
- in-dispensable
- more necessary
- more substratal
- most substratal
- sub stratal
- sub-stratal
- under lying
- under-lying
• capital
- fore most
- fore-most
- more overruling
- more prominent
- most overruling
- out standing
- outstanding
- over ruling
- over-ruling
- para mount
- para-mount
- pre dominant
- pre eminent
- pre-dominant
• elementary
- be ginning
- be-ginning
- child play
- childs play
- initial
- meat potatoes
- more abcs
- more abecedarian
- more beginning
- more primo
- more simplex
- more uncomplex
- most abcs
- most abecedarian
- most beginning
- most primo
- most simplex
- most uncomplex
- preliminary
- un complex
- un complicated
- un-complex
- un-complicated
- uncomplicated
• essential
- deep seated
- deepseated
- in born
- in bred
- in-born
- in-bred
- more nitty gritty
- more nitty-gritty
- more nittygritty
- most ideal
- most nitty gritty
- most nitty-gritty
- most nittygritty
- name game
- name the game
- nittygritty
- nubbest
• fundamental
- bottomline
- grass roots
- grass-roots
- grassroots
- more axiological
- more bottom line
- more bottom-line
- more bottomline
- more grass roots
- more grass-roots
- more grassroots
- more substrative
- more sustaining
- more underived
- most axiological
- most bottom line
- most bottom-line
- most bottomline
- most fundamental
- most grass roots
- most grass-roots
- most grassroots
- most substrative
- most sustaining
- most underived
- un derived
- un-derived
• intrinsic
- in-dwelling
- inmost
• lowermost
- lower most
- lower-most
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• fundamental

radical

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Independent
- Adjective
  central, corresponding, crucial, elementary, explanatory, far-reaching, hidden, implicit, intrinsic, overriding, potential, profound, subjacent, tacit, unrealised, unwritten, vital, preexisting, pre-existing, in-depth, deep-level.
- Verb, past tense
  Allowing, Permitting.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  according, affecting, arguing, backing, basically, bearing, beginning, beneath, bringing, building, calling, causing, collecting, concerning, connecting, contending, contributing, controlling, corresponding, covering, dealing, deepening, detailing, determining, drawing, driving, emphasizing, essentially, falling, following, fund, gathering, governing, grounding, heading, helping, hiding, highlighting, informing, inspiring, installing, latest, leaving, lingering, links, low, lurking, lying, melting, motivating, mount, moving, overlying, overriding, playing, point, pointing, precipitating, profound, prompting, qualifying, reaching, reflecting, regarding, regulating, remaining, reporting, serving, shaping, showing, simmering, steps, stimulating, striking, substantiating, surrounding, thoroughgoing, touching, Adding, Aiding, Arising, Assisting, Attaching, Basing, Carrying, Chairing, Claiming, Depending, Describing, Emanating, Endorsing, Establishing, Evolving, Explaining, Facilitating, Forming, Furthering, Granting, Guaranteeing, Having, Impacting, Indicating, Influencing, Involving, Justifying, Looming, Noting, Originating, Outlining, Pertaining, Recognizing, Relating, Relying, Respecting, Responding, Resting, Securing, Transferring, Underpinning, Warranting, Constituting, Containing, Presiding, Spawning, Stating, Submitting, Sustaining, Resources, stressing, underlining, documenting, principles, demonstrating, reasons, ensuring, safeguarding, representing, underscoring, long-standing, emphasising.
Other Related
- Adjective
  deep-rooted, deep-seated, fundamental, implied, inherent, predicate, thoroughgoing, ulterior, ultimate, Underpinning, deepest.
- Proper noun, singular
  fundamental.
- Noun, singular or mass
  predicate, Underpinning.

What are the hypernyms for Underlying?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
basic, essential, fundamental, primary, root.

What are the opposite words for underlying?

Underlying refers to the hidden or fundamental cause of something or an existing layer beneath the surface. There are several antonyms for the word underlying, for instance, overt, surface, obvious, apparent, visible and manifest. These words are contrasting and indicate the opposite of underlying. Overt refers to something openly displayed and not hidden, while surface refers to the uppermost layer of something that is visible. Obvious is used to describe something that is easily understood, and apparent refers to something that is visible or perceivable. Visible, on the other hand, suggests something easily seen with the naked eyes while manifest is used to describe something that is clearly understood or easily perceived.

What are the antonyms for Underlying?

adj.
• fundamental, latent
- secondary
• noun
- Evolved
- advanced
- complex
- complicated
- convoluted
- detailed
- developed
- elaborate
- explicit
- expressed
- extensive
- high
- higher
- incident
- incidental
- intricate
- refined
- sophisticated
- superjacent
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Usage examples for Underlying

An underlying reference of sacrifice to sin, speaking generally, was entirely absent.

"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"

G. A. Chadwick

There was a world of anxious apology, of excuse, underlying her confidences.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

How does unconformability prove a lapse of time between the accumulation of the underlying and overlying strata?

"Geology"

James Geikie

Famous quotes with Underlying

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

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I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.

Peter L. Berger
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.

Vince Cable
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

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