Roots Synonyms and Antonyms

Dig with the snout
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. routs
  2. uproots
  3. removes
  4. obliterates
  5. liquidates
  6. kills
  7. extirpates
  8. extinguishes
  9. exterminates
  10. erases
  11. eradicates
  12. clears
  13. annihilates
Antonyms:
  1. plants
  2. covers
To provide a basis for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. underpins
  2. rests
  3. predicates
  4. grounds
  5. founds
  6. establishes
  7. builds
  8. bases
The place where something begins, where it springs into being
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bulbs
  2. radixes
  3. stems
  4. themes
  5. spurs
  6. sources
  7. radicals
  8. origins
  9. rootstocks
  10. base
  11. beginnings
Antonyms:
  1. sprouts
  2. derivations
  3. derivatives
The cause or basis
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sources
  2. origins
  3. hearts
  4. wells
  5. antecedents
  6. springs
  7. parents
  8. reasons
  9. fountains
  10. rootstocks
  11. ascendants
  12. provenances
  13. mothers
  14. founts
  15. derivations
  16. motives
  17. beginnings
  18. ancestors
Antonyms:
  1. descendants
To implant so deeply as to make change nearly impossible
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lodges
  2. ingrains
  3. infixes
  4. fixes
  5. fastens
  6. entrenches
  7. embeds
A point of origin from which ideas or influences, for example, originate
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hearts
  2. foci
  3. cores
  4. centers
  5. bottoms
A fundamental principle or underlying concept
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bases
  2. base
  3. rudiments
  4. fundamentals
  5. fundaments
  6. foundations
  7. cornerstones
The most central and material part
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cores
  2. gravamina
  3. stuffs
  4. spirits
  5. piths
  6. hearts
  7. substances
  8. souls
  9. nubs
  10. meats
  11. marrows
  12. kernels
  13. essences
The set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. solutions
A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. etyma
A primary source; an origin.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. origins

Words Related to Roots

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Roots Sentence Examples

  • Grass roots efforts to assist people in need.

  • If that Alex returned to his roots, there was no reason she couldn't be at his side.

  • Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old, and long after the superstructure has disappeared posterity remark its dent in the earth.

  • Grabbing the worn roots of an old tree, she climbed out of the pool.

  • That's Roman wormwood--that's pigweed--that's sorrel--that's piper-grass--have at him, chop him up, turn his roots upward to the sun, don't let him have a fibre in the shade, if you do he'll turn himself t' other side up and be as green as a leek in two days.

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