fundamentals
Essential building blocks
Fundamentals are the essential principles or elements that form the foundation of a subject or skill.
You learn the fundamentals before advancing: She drilled the fundamentals of piano technique.
In finance, fundamentals are the core metrics—earnings, assets, debt—that determine a company's underlying value: The stock price collapsed despite strong fundamentals.
Serving as a beginning
- elementaryOf first principles
- beginnerOne who lacks experience
- 101Introductory course level
- primerPreparatory coat or guide
ABCs · first steps · groundwork · preliminaries · rudiments · novice · starting point · foundation
Underlying support structure
- frameworkUnderlying support system
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- scaffoldingTemporary exterior work platform
- substructureSupporting base beneath
base · substrate · footing · platform · backbone · skeleton · architecture · support system
Accepted starting principles
- tenetsFoundational beliefs of doctrine
- preceptsRules of conduct
- doctrinesCodified belief systems
- canonsEstablished authoritative standards
maxims · postulates · theorems · laws · rules · guidelines · standards · philosophies
Central essential portion
- cruxMost important point
- heartCirculatory system's pump
- essentialsIndispensable items or elements
- quintessencePurest embodiment of something
bedrock · cornerstone · keystone · linchpin · nucleus · root · basis · vitals
introductory
Serving as a beginning
- elementaryOf first principles
- beginnerOne who lacks experience
- 101Introductory course level
primer · ABCs · first steps · groundwork · preliminaries · rudiments · novice · starting point · foundation · building blocks
foundation
Underlying support structure
- frameworkUnderlying support system
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- scaffoldingTemporary exterior work platform
substructure · base · substrate · footing · platform · backbone · skeleton · architecture · support system · underpinning
axioms
Accepted starting principles
canons · maxims · postulates · theorems · laws · rules · guidelines · standards · philosophies · credos
core
Central essential portion
- cruxMost important point
- heartCirculatory system's pump
- essentialsIndispensable items or elements
quintessence · bedrock · cornerstone · keystone · linchpin · nucleus · root · basis · vitals · necessities
- skill buildingpractice, drills, training, repetition, exercises
- Sports Developmentcoaching, training camps, youth leagues, practice drills, skill building
- preliminarieswarmup, warm-up, qualifying exam, intro, preface
- simplified guidesbeginner guides, primers, basics, introductions, overviews
- elementary schoolclassroom, student, first grade teacher, reading skills, teacher
- coachinghead coach, life coaching, mentorship, executive coaching, fitness coach
fundamentalsnonessentials
Items not required
peripherals · trivialities · extras · frills · inessentials
fundamentalsadvanced concepts
Ideas beyond introductory level
complexities · sophistications · intricacies · subtleties · nuances
fundamentalssurface
Outermost boundary layer
superficialities · externals · veneer · periphery · appearances
- fundamental rightsCore legal protections guaranteed
- fundamental freedomsConstitutionally protected core liberties
- religious fundamentalismLiteral interpretation of scripture
- fundamental principlesEssential underlying truths
- fundamental lawsFoundational rules of systems
- Christian fundamentalismLiteral Bible belief movement
fundamental, fundamentally, fundamentalist, fundamentalism, fundamentalists