Basic synonyms

Brass tacks, bare-bones, adequate, basis, and bedrock are all synonyms for basic. Secondary and unimportant are antonyms of basic. And here are 96 another word for basic.

Another word for basic

1. fundamental

  • Bare-bones
  • Cardinal
  • Central
  • Chief
  • Critical
  • Cut down
  • Elemental
  • Elementary
  • Essential
  • Focal
  • Foundational
  • Fundamental
  • Indispensable
  • Intrinsic
  • Key
  • Necessary
  • Pivotal
  • Primary
  • Principal
  • Quintessential
  • Root
  • Rudimentary
  • Salient
  • Staple
  • Stripped down
  • Underlying
  • Vital
  • Ingrained

2. lowest

  • Adequate
  • Austere
  • Bottom
  • Crude
  • Ground
  • Homely
  • Homespun
  • Limited
  • Lowest
  • Makeshift
  • Meagre
  • Minimal
  • Modest
  • Muted
  • Ordinary
  • Patchy
  • Plain
  • Restrained
  • Rough and ready
  • Rough-hewn
  • Rough
  • Rudimentary
  • Severe
  • Simple
  • Sketchy
  • Sparse
  • Spartan
  • Stark
  • Starting
  • Straightforward
  • Unadorned
  • Undecorated
  • Undermost
  • Unfussy
  • Unornamented
  • Unostentatious
  • Unpretentious
  • Unsophisticated
  • Without commission
  • Without frills
  • Bog-standard

3. fundamentals

  • Basis
  • Bedrock
  • Brass tacks
  • Core
  • Crux
  • Essence
  • Essentials
  • Facts
  • First principles
  • Foundations
  • Fundamentals
  • Groundwork
  • Hard facts
  • Kernel
  • Marrow
  • Meat
  • Nitty-gritty
  • Nub
  • Nuts and bolts
  • Practicalities
  • Preliminaries
  • Principles
  • Realities
  • Rudiments
  • Sine qua non
  • ABC

Basic synonyms statistics

The adjective "basic" has a variety of synonyms that differ in length. 2 synonyms with 3 letters, 4 synonyms with 4 letters, 10 synonyms with 5 letters, 13 synonyms with 6 letters, 13 synonyms with 7 letters, 6 synonyms with 8 letters, 13 synonyms with 9 letters, 8 synonyms with 10 letters, 6 synonyms with 11 letters, 5 synonyms with 12 letters, 5 synonyms with 13 letters, 3 synonyms with 14 letters, 3 synonyms with 15 letters, and 1 synonym with 17 letters, for a total of 92 synonyms for basic.

Basic sentences

He understands the basic principles well.

This course covers basic concepts thoroughly.

Basic needs must be fulfilled.

They learned basic skills in school.


Similar to basic

Word Opposites Synonyms
Be sick Be healthy, be well Vomit, throw up
Sick Well, healthy Ill, unwell
Classic Modern, contemporary Definitive, authoritative
Physical Clerical, intellectual, spiritual Bodily, corporeal
Base Summit, apex Foundation, bottom
Feasible Impractical, unachievable Achievable, attainable
Basis Result, outcome Foundation, groundwork
Basically Complexly, complicatedly Fundamentally, primarily
Emphasis Indifference, disregard Prominence, importance
Music Silence, quiet, soundlessness, hush Notes, strains