Definitions for fundamental

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fundamental fun·da·men·tal

Spelling: [fuhn-duh-men-tl]

IPA: /ˌfʌn dəˈmɛn tl/

Fundamental is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 612 anagrams from letters in fundamental (aadeflmnntu).

Definitions for fundamental

noun

1. a basic principle, rule, law, or the like, that serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part:
2. Also called fundamental note, fundamental tone. Music. the root of a chord. the generator of a series of harmonics.
3. Physics. the component of lowest frequency in a composite wave.

adjective

1. serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying:
2. of, relating to, or affecting the foundation or basis:
3. being an original or primary source:
4. Music. (of a chord) having its root as its lowest note.

Origin of fundamental

1400-50; late Middle English Medieval Latin fundāmentālis of, belonging to a foundation. See fundament, -al¹

Examples for fundamental

This fundamental conservative idea, that men are brutes so women better take care, is, itself, victim-blaming.

The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature.

Moreover, for America there is a fundamental imperative to act.

For once, he was revealing that fundamental egotism which is the characteristic of all his kind.

Yet the Meduza office was full of hope and what the journalists described as a fundamental change—they felt free in Riga.

In the meantime, we continue to support the restoration of fundamental human rights in Cuba.

In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.

The nervous system is the fundamental fact of our earthly life.

This is a testament to the fundamental human—and American—desire to combine place and possibility.

But it can do something, and that something is vital and fundamental.