underlying

[Un`der*ly·ing]

Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.

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Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.

Adjective S.
in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning"

Adjective S.
being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incompatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles"

Adjective S.
located beneath or below


a.
Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.


Underlying

Un`der*ly"ing , a. Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.

Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.

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Usage Examples

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

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Other Usage Examples

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

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