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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

relating to the essence or fundamental principles of something;

e.g. The instructor went over the basic rules of the class.

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Similar Words

Abecedarian

Basal

Beginning

Elemental

Elementary

Essential

Essentially

Fundamental

Introductory

Life-and-death

Meat-and-potatoes

Organic

Rudimentary

Underdeveloped

Underlying

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Opposite Words

Accessorial

Accessory

Accidental

Accidentally

Acquired

Adscititious

Advanced

Adventitious

Alien

Amenity

Appurtenant

Auxiliary

Comfort

Complex

Complicated

Contributory

Convoluted

Dependent

Derivative

Detailed

Developed

Elaborate

Extensive

External

Extra

Extraneous

Extrinsic

Fiddling

Foolish

Foreign

Frill

Frivolous

Fry

Helping

Here

High

Iffy

Impenetrable

Incidental

Incomprehensible

Inconsequential

Inconsiderable

Indulgence

Insignificant

Intricate

Least

Little

Luxury

Minor

Negligible

Neither

Nickel-and-dime

Nonessential

Nor

Nugatory

One-horse

Or

Peripheral

Refined

Secondary

Slight

Small

Small-fry

Small-time

Sophisticated

Subservient

Superfluity

Supervenient

Supplemental

Supplementary

Tentative

There

Trifling

Trivial

Unfathomable

Ungraspable

Unimportant

Unintelligible

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Related Words

All-important

Beginning

Built-in

Claim

Constitutional

Constitutive

Crucial

Dun

Essential

Essentially

Hardwired

Immanent

Imperative

Important

Importunity

Inborn

Inbred

Indigenous

Indispensable

Ingrain

Ingrained

Inherent

Innate

Integral

Intrinsic

Introductory

Key

Low

Must-have

Native

Natural

Necessary

Needful

Pivotal

Prefatory

Preliminary

Preparatory

Primal

Primary

Prime

Primeval

Primitive

Primordial

Required

Requisite

Requisition

Rude

Rudimentary

Simple

Ultimatum

Uncomplicated

Vital

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