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underlying (root: underlie)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective underlying has 3 senses
- underlying(s = adj.all) implicit in, inherent - in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning"
- underlying(s = adj.all) Array - located beneath or below; Array
- underlying(s = adj.all) fundamental, rudimentary - being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incomatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles"
CIDE DICTIONARY
underlying, a.
- Lying under or beneath; as, the underlying strata of a locality. [1913 Webster]
- Fundamental; basic; as, underlying principles; underlying causes. [1913 Webster]
- Implicit; not immediately obvious; requiring careful scrutiny to discover; as, the underlying sarcasm in her seemingly innocuous remark.. [PJC]
THESAURUS
underlying
ab ovo, basal, basic, basilar, between the lines, bottom, cardinal, constituent, constitutive, covert, critical, crucial, cryptic, delitescent, dormant, elemental, elementary, esoteric, essential, foundational, fundamental, gut, hibernating, hidden, indispensable, latent, lurking, material, muffled, mystic, necessary, needful, obfuscated, obscured, occult, of the essence, original, possible, potential, primal, primary, primitive, radical, rudimentary, sleeping, submerged, substantial, substantive, under the surface, unmanifested, veiled, virtual, vital
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