PROPAEDEUTIC Synonyms

• pertaining to or constituting a base or basis

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

• a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use

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

• serving as a base or starting point

• of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base

• 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

• serving to open or begin

• serving as a base or starting point

• serving as an introduction or preface

• a minor match preceding the main event

• something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows

• denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important

• 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

• Of, or relating to a foundation or foundations

• Fundamental or underlying

• preceding and preparing for something

• a course that provides an introduction to an art or science (or to more advanced study generally)