Antonyms for underlying


Grammar : Adj
Spell : uhn-der-lahy-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʌn dərˌlaɪ ɪŋ


Definition of underlying

Origin :
  • Old English under licgan "to be subordinate to, to submit to;" see under + lie (v.2). Meaning "to lie under or beneath" is attested from c.1600; figurative sense of "to be the basis of" is attested from 1852 (implied in underlying).
  • adj fundamental, latent
Example sentences :
  • It is plain (suggested Socrates), they do not know the underlying meaning.
  • Extract from : « The Symposium » by Xenophon
  • The underlying causes for the conduct, life and end of Apicius have not been told.
  • Extract from : « Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome » by Apicius
  • Sanitation, not the word, but the underlying idea, was taught by precept and example.
  • Extract from : « The Negro Farmer » by Carl Kelsey
  • An underlying tendency can be discerned in well-organized knowledge.
  • Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
  • Yet underlying all this there ran a vein of good cheer, of hopefulness.
  • Extract from : « Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail » by Ezra Meeker
  • He was perfectly respectful, though there was an underlying threat in his manner.
  • Extract from : « In Direst Peril » by David Christie Murray
  • The reports naturally show the correctness of the underlying theory.
  • Extract from : « The Human Aura » by Swami Panchadasi
  • But there was also an underlying nervousness which seemed to hint at something beyond.
  • Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
  • The Mexican mountains are mainly of underlying granite formation.
  • Extract from : « Mexico » by Charles Reginald Enock
  • The form Marduk is Semitic, and points to an underlying stem, rdk.
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow

Synonyms for underlying

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