fundamental

(s) serving as an essential component
- a cardinal rule
- the central cause of the problem
- an example that was fundamental to the argument
- computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure
cardinal, central, key, primal,
(s) being or involving basic facts or principles
- the fundamental laws of the universe
- a fundamental incomatibility between them
- these rudimentary truths
- underlying principles
rudimentary, underlying,
(s) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
- the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred
- the book underwent fundamental changes
- committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance
- profound social changes
profound,

Nouns

(n) any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business
- fundamentals include a company's growth, revenues, earnings, management, and capital structure
(n) the lowest tone of a harmonic series first harmonic, fundamental frequency,

Synonyms

cardinal central key primal rudimentary underlying first harmonic fundamental frequency profound

Words of close approximity

fundamental analysis fundamental frequency fundamental interaction fundamentalism fundamentalist fundamentalistic fundamental law fundamentally fundamental measure fundamental particle fundamental principle fundamental quantity fundamentals fundamentals analysis