Nearby Words
adjective
1.
lying or situated beneath, as a substratum.
2.
fundamental; basic: the underlying cause of their discontent.
3.
implicit; discoverable only by close scrutiny or analysis: an underlying seriousness in his witticisms.
4.
(of a claim, mortgage, etc.) taking precedence; anterior; prior.
5.
Linguistics. belonging to an earlier stage in the transformational derivation of a sentence or other structure; belonging to the deep structure.
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Underlying
is always a great word to know.
So is unmarked. Does it mean:
| an area of human experience or perception that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary |
| characterized by the absence of a distinctive phonological feature, such as (p) in contrast to (b), which lacks the distinctive feature of voicing |
Example Sentences
- The underlying shoddiness, however, was lost in the sheer magnitude of the project.
- At the time, the idea was to deconstruct texts to uncover underlying ideologies.
- That's the underlying basis of the original technology.
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verb (used with object) un·der·lay, un·der·lain, un·der·ly·ing.
1.
to lie under or beneath; be situated under.
2.
to be at the basis of; form the foundation of.
3.
Grammar. to function as the root morpheme or original or basic form of (a derived form): The form “boy” underlies “boyish.”
4.
Finance. to be primary to another right or security.
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