understructure

1. 1.

   lowest support of a structure

   “it was built on a base of solid rock”

   “he stood at the foot of the tower”

   Synonymsfoundationbasefundamentfootgroundworksubstructure

   Broadersupport

   Narrowerbedraft foundation

   Part ofstructure

Other forms of understructure

plural

understructures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about understructure

What does understructure mean?

understructure means "lowest support of a structure".

How many syllables are in understructure?

understructure has 4 syllables: un-der-struc-ture. The stress falls on "der".

What is another word for understructure?

Close synonyms include foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork. 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 understructure a common word?

understructure 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.