FUNDAMENTAL

FUN ·DA ·MEN ·TAL 4 syllables

B1 · Intermediate 📏 11 letters 🎲 Scrabble 17 ✅ valid word

Useful in everyday and work contexts.

noun
  1. any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business
  2. the lowest tone of a harmonic series

💬 Examples

  • "fundamentals include a company's growth, revenues, earnings, management, and capital structure"
adjective
  1. serving as an essential component
  2. being or involving basic facts or principles
  3. far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something

💬 Examples

  • "a cardinal rule"
  • "the central cause of the problem"
  • "the fundamental laws of the universe"
  • "a fundamental incompatibility between them"
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