fundamental

Definition:
1. Serious and very important; affecting the most central and important parts of something.
2. Central; forming the necessary basis of something.

Use 'fundamental' in a sentence:

• 1. What children eat is fundamental to their health, growth and development.
• 2. In all cases, the fundamental principles remain the same.
• 3. A fundamental human right is being withheld from these people.
• 4. Colour is fundamental in home design — something you'll always have in every room.
• 5. This decision represents the fundamental interests of the people.
• 6. Behind the texting explosion is a fundamental shift in how we view our mobile devices.
• 7. They agree on fundamentals, like the need for further political reform.
• 8. Please first read the introduction on the fundamentals of print production.
• 9. But on this question, the two leaders have very fundamental differences.
• 10. I knew she had some fundamental problems in her marriage because she had confided in me a year earlier.
• 11. The brain faces the fundamental problem of interpreting physical stimuli from the senses.
• 12. Primary groups are fundamental to us and to society.
• 13. There are fundamental differences between your political beliefs and mine.
• 14. He taught me the fundamentals of the job.
• 15. They believe that a fundamental change in the governance of Britain is the key to all other necessary changes.
• 16. Food serves as a form of communication in two fundamental ways.
• 17. His only fundamental mistake, he insists, is that he was 20 years before his time.
• 18. Trust is fundamental to life.
• 19. I am not cast down by it because I believe in the fundamental strength of the business.
• 20. Such a system would be a fundamental blow to the rights and liberties of the English people.
• 21. A close study of his compositions reveals that Beethoven overturned no fundamental rules.
• 22. He believes better relations with China are fundamental to the well-being of the area.
• 23. A fundamental particle is created when three ribbons are joined in a "plait".
• 24. It was not simply a practical matter, but a fundamental question of principle.
• 25. Our constitution embodies all the fundamental principles of democracy.
• 26. The argument is full of fundamental flaws.
• 27. These are all fundamental commitments that are now occurring later in life.
• 28. A millennium ago, step-wells were fundamental to life in the driest parts of India.
• 29. Satava says, "We are in the midst of a fundamental change in the field of medicine."
• 30. Technical skill is a fundamental basis for most, if not all, great art.
• 31. The law of the unity of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe.
• 32. The fundamental problem lies in their inability to distinguish between reality and invention.
• 33. There are three fundamental principles of teamwork.
• 34. The doctrine was based on three fundamental principles.
• 35. NATO countries have been forced to confront fundamental moral questions.
• 36. The state's worst prison riot will force a fundamental reappraisal of prison policy.
• 37. That is the fundamental difference between the two societies.
• 38. The method they pioneered remains fundamental to research into the behaviour of nerve cells.
• 39. The fundamental way out for agriculture lies in mechanization.
• 40. Hard work is fundamental to success.
• 41. There is a fundamental difference between the two points of view.
• 42. Certainly, the biological link between parent and child is fundamental.
• 43. The other fundamental consideration in the conception of a plan is function.
• 44. Industry leaders want scientists to engage in fundamental research, not applied research.
• 45. The first change is a matter of degree, the second is a fundamental shift.
• 46. A fundamental change in the organization of health services was required.
• 47. There is still a fundamental misunderstanding about the real purpose of this work.
• 48. Clothes are a fundamental form of self-expression.
• 49. One of the fundamental bars to communication is the lack of a universally spoken, common language.
• 50. There is no conflict of fundamental interests among the third world countries.