Vocabulary
Fundamental
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
forming a necessary base or core; of central importance.
Urdu meaning
بنیادی، اصلی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- I will concern myself here with its impact on one social domain: education and the fundamental task of ways and methods of learning and knowing.
- The problem, however, is that this approach ignores a fundamental fact about learning.
- It is also a fundamental erosion of the human experience.
- When Mr Jain said the Hindus appeared to have been rewarded for desecrating the mosque for decades, Mr Chandrachud countered him by asking: `What about the fundamental act of desecration the very erection of the mosque.
- IT is getting harder every day to do the fundamental journalistic task of collecting facts and verifying information.
Synonyms
basic, foundational, rudimentary, elemental, elementary, underlying, basal
Antonyms
secondary, unimportant
Curator example
“the protection of fundamental human rights”
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