basic principle

Questions about basic principle

What does basic principle mean?

basic principle means "principles from which other truths can be derived".

What is another word for basic principle?

Close synonyms include fundamentals, basics, fundamental principle, bedrock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is basic principle a common word?

basic principle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.