Underlying

Adjective

 * 1) lying underneath
 * We dug down to the underlying rock.
 * 1) basic or fundamental
 * Points and straight lines are underlying elements of geometry.
 * 1) implicit
 * Many nursery rhymes have an underlying meaning.

Thesaurus
ab ovo, basal, basic, basilar, between the lines, bottom, cardinal, constituent, constitutive, covert, critical, crucial, cryptic, delitescent, dormant, elemental, elementary, esoteric, essential, foundational, fundamental, gut, hibernating, hidden, indispensable, latent, lurking, material, muffled, mystic, necessary, needful, obfuscated, obscured, occult, of the essence, original, possible, potential, primal, primary, primitive, radical, rudimentary, sleeping, submerged, substantial, substantive, under the surface, unmanifested, veiled, virtual, vital

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: alla oleva
 * French: sous-jacent


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: perustana oleva


 * French:


 * Dutch:
 * French: sous-jacent


 * German:
 * Portuguese:


 * : achterliggend

Anagrams

 * enduringly