Definition: 1. In the nature of something though not readily apparent. 2. Located beneath or below. 3. Being or involving basic facts or principles.
Use 'underlying' in a sentence:
1. He complains that the underlying approach is top-down and involves the government dictating the rules.
2. Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
3. Beneath the festive mood there is an underlying apprehension.
4. Such behavior is regarded as "all too human", with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance.
5. What is underlying this new movement in real estate, and why do these cities have so much appeal?
6. Were they written tongue-in-cheek, or with an underlying conviction?
7. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or a system.
8. No matter, there is still the underlying idea that we cannot have a life of our own without concern for the ecosystem in which we live, whether in majesty or not.
9. Cars were covered with clear-coat finish at the factory to protect the underlying paint from fading.
10. Althouth very thin, the epidermis serves to protect the underlying dermis.
11. To stop a problem you have to understand its underlying causes.
12. The water evaporates and the salts are left behind, creating a white crustal layer that prevents air and water from reaching the underlying soil.
13. The explanation may be in Earth's mantle, the layer of rock underlying the tectonic plates and extending down over 1,800 miles to the outer edge of Earth's iron core.
14. The real problem is the underlying system.
15. This member function allows direct access to the underlying common control.
16. Hieroglyphs were mainly phonetic; they represented sounds, not pictures, and the underlying language was Coptic.
17. It is possible that the wellbeing of pets is driven by the underlying nature of the owner, not simply by their conscious decisions and behaviours.
18. On vacation in California, the President said he has reviewed the matter with administration officials and found no underlying problems with the economy.
19. It is difficult to see the underlying source of stress ending.
20. I think that the underlying problem is education, unemployment and bad housing.
21. The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt.
22. As soon as I realized this, I investigated the underlying relationship between four prevalent air pollutants and their affect on the lung health of asthmatic patients.
23. The underlying structure for virtual application patterns are pattern types.
24. Maybe looking the underlying full data for a curious time step will clear things up.
25. That's the idea underlying content into a show, and the next day the watercooler conversations will begin with the phrase "Did you see/ hear last night's episode of X?"
26. The underlying assumption was that the time saved would be used instead for activities that would improve the social and economic development of the communities.
27. Over the long term, such measures may only make the underlying situation worse.
28. The underlying idea is an appealing one.
29. TCM's complexity and underlying conceptual foundations present challenges for researchers seeking evidence on how it works.
30. They have certain underlying similarities.
31. You should also include some carnations to emphasize your underlying meaning.\\"
32. Since themes develop over time, you can't fully understand the underlying themes until the end of the text.
33. One of the underlying themes of the entire movie is something everyone can relate to, and it's true in many stories like Romeo and Juliet.
34. An archaeologically valuable ancient tomb was unearthed in the underlying soil of this corn field.
35. The breaking of symmetry scrambles the underlying order of nature.
36. Utilitarianism is a very broad, imprecise concept that covers a multitude of underlying theoretical positions.
37. It wasn't until 1906 that a scholar came across the prayer book in a library and realized it was a palimpsest, and that the underlying layer of texts could only have come from Archimedes.
38. And there is more to the story, because not only are the devices that house incandescent bulbs shaped to their underlying characteristics, but rooms and entire buildings have been designed in accordance with how incandescent lighting reflects off walls and windows.
39. Moreover, the underlying message is that the family's native language is not important or valued.
40. The mythology of other cultures and societies reveal the underlying traits of their respective cultures just as Aesop's fables did.
41. Unfortunately, because this approach fails to deal with the underlying causes of inflation, wage and price controls eventually collapse, the hitherto-repressed inflation resurfaces.
42. Underlying all of this is a simple dynamic: Apple, Google, Facebook and other companies hold most of the cards in this confrontation.
43. Yet underlying all of this is a simple dynamic: Apple, Google, Facebook and other companies hold most of the cards in this confrontation.
44. This activism and the views underlying it came to prevail in the United States labor movement and in 1935 the AFL unequivocally reversed its position on health legislation.
45. This might seem to suggest an appropriate correspondence between the sequence of subjective experiences and the sequence of the underlying events in the brain.
46. Thanks to its ongoing stimulus spending, which it is not proposing to trim, Germany's underlying budget deficit is forecast to rise this year.
47. The underlying trend of inflation is still upwards.
48. The underlying assumption is that the amount of money available is limited.
49. Even a problem as simple as a bad back often has an underlying triggering factor.
50. Unemployment may be an underlying cause of the rising crime rate.
