BASIC Synonyms

• basic and fundamental

• being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc

• defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established

• anything indispensable

• absolutely necessary; vitally necessary

• of the greatest importance

• any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business

• the lowest tone of a harmonic series

• serving as an essential component

• being or involving basic facts or principles

• far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something

• absolutely essential

• anything indispensable

• unavoidably determined by prior circumstances

• not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree

• a judge of a probate court

• the expected or commonplace condition or situation

• a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death

• an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel

• (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields

• lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

• not elaborate or elaborated; simple

• lacking patterns especially in color

• extensive tract of level open land

• a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

• unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')

• clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

• not mixed with extraneous elements

• free from any effort to soften to disguise

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• lacking in physical beauty or proportion

• express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

• of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary

• a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

• one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing

• (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it

• coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit

• not derived from or reducible to something else; basic

• most important element

• of or being the essential or basic part

• having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved

• (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions

• any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

• a person lacking intelligence or common sense

• easy and not involved or complicated

• apart from anything else; without additions or modifications

• exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

• lacking mental capacity and subtlety

• unornamented

• free from ambiguity

• without evasion or compromise

• without concealment or deception; honest

• pointed directly ahead

• lacking complexity

• easy and not involved or complicated

• relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7

• appearing in a biblical canon

• of or relating to or required by canon law

• reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality

• conforming to orthodox or recognized rules

• appearing in a biblical canon

• of or relating to or required by canon law

• reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality

• conforming to orthodox or recognized rules

• serving to open or begin

• serving as a base or starting point

• serving as an introduction or preface

• (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

• a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn

• material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing

• a short U-shaped wire nail

• paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together

• necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities

• secure or fasten with a staple or staples