Meaning

3 senses
  1. (not comparable)Lying underneath.

    We dug down to the underlying rock.

    darunterliegend

  2. (not comparable)Basic or fundamental.

    Points and straight lines are underlying elements of geometry.

    being or involving basic facts or principles

  3. (not comparable)Implicit.

    Many nursery rhymes have an underlying meaning.

    implizit

Translations

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By meaning 2
lying underneath:
implicit:

Origin

By surface analysis, underlie + -ing.

By surface analysis, underlie + -ing.

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Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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