Synonyms for Underpinning:

adj.
• supporting
- Propping
- backing
- supporting
- upholding
n.
- burning issue/question
- concern
- core
- element
- essence
- feature
- key
- priority
- staple
- framework
- gantry
- joist
- rafter
- scaffold
- stanchion
- over
• base
- chief constituents
- important parts
- primary elements
- sub structure
- sub structures
- sub-structure
- sub-structures
- under pinning
- under-pinning
• basis
- support
• column
- stelai
- up right
- up rights
- up-right
- up-rights
• footing
- resting places
- under structure
- under structures
- under-structure
- under-structures
- understructures
• foundation
- nittygritty
- nuts bolts
• grounds
- chapter verse
- in formations
- in-formation
- in-formations
- infos
- pre text
- pre texts
- pre-text
- pre-texts
- straight stuffs
- whyfors
• infrastructure
- infra-structure
• support
- bolster
- crutch
- hinge
- prop
v.
• supporting
- Bolstering
- Hinging
- buttressing
Other synonyms:

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basis
fundament
leg

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ground

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bottom

•

bed
foot
seat

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• basis

supporting structure

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Independent
- Proper noun, singular
  Bases, Foundations.
- Noun, singular or mass
  background, backing, base, basis, footing, foundation, ground, grounding, groundwork, justification, linchpin, mainstay, pillar, rationale, substantiation.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  appearing, arguing, asserting, assuring, backing, base, bearing, building, complete, connecting, contending, covering, deepening, defending, deriving, docking, drawing, driving, favoring, governing, grounding, guiding, holding, informing, insisting, intensifying, main, overlying, overriding, permeating, pervading, posing, precipitating, preserving, reflecting, regulating, reporting, saying, showing, sitting, strengthening, substantiating, support, surrounding, tightening, underlying, urging, Advocating, Affirming, Aiding, Alleging, Amounting, Arising, Assisting, Attaching, Attesting, Basing, Bolstering, Boosting, Carrying, Claiming, Endorsing, Enhancing, Facilitating, Forming, Furthering, Guaranteeing, Indicating, Justifying, Maintaining, Pertaining, Relating, Relying, Securing, Comprising, Consolidating, Constituting, Promoting, Stemming, Stating, Staying, Stepping, Submitting, Suggesting, Supplementing, Sustaining, upholding, underlining, documenting, demonstrating, ensuring, underscoring, sponsoring, complementing, Favouring, subsidising.
Other Related
- Adjective
  underlying.
- Noun, singular or mass
  backbone, bedrock, cornerstone, support, underlying.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  reinforcing.

What are the hypernyms for Underpinning?

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

Other hypernyms:
base, foundation, support.

Usage examples for Underpinning

You and I have seen something of the rottenness of the Underpinning which props up empires.

"The Maids of Paradise"

Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Underpinning is dangerous if the building be badly cracked, and may cause collapse.

"Vanishing England"

P. H. Ditchfield

It was plain that he could, however, his only fear being that somebody might whisper something to turn Sylvia's innocence into a terrible wisdom which would ruin everything, and knock the Underpinning from the new tower which his inflated fancy beheld slowly growing heavenward, surmounting the house of Belwether.

"The Fighting Chance"

Robert W. Chambers

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adj.

n.

v.

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