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rootnoun a point or place at which something is invented or providedhe insists that insecurity is the root of all jealousy cradle, font, fountain, fountainhead, origin, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspring beginning, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go(also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, thresholdbaseline, first base, ground zero, square one the source from which something grows or developsone would need to go back at least several hundred years to find the root of the entrenched hostility between the neighboring nations fountainhead, germ, origin, seed, seedbed font, fountain, spring, well, wellhead, wellspringbeginning, birth, commencement, dawn, genesis, inception, incipiency, launch, morning, onset, outset, start, thresholdcreation, inauguration, origination an immaterial thing upon which something else restsan implicit trust in the wisdom of the people is the root of democracy base, basis, bedrock, bottom, cornerstone, footing, foundation, ground, groundwork, keystone, underpinning, warp, warp and woof anchorage, bed, brace, bulwark, buttress, framework, infrastructure, mount, prop, shore, stay, substratum, substructure, supportassumption, justification, premise(also premiss), presumption, presupposition, rationale, supposition, theory, thesis, warrantbackbone, center, core, eye, focus, heart, hub, kernel, nucleus, seatessence, quintessence, soul, touchstone the central part or aspect of something under considerationat root, it's a question of the proper limits, if any, of free speech bottom line, bull's-eye, centerpiece, core, crux, essence, gist, heart, kernel, keynote, meat, meat and potatoes, net, nub, nubbin, nucleus, pith, pivot, point, sum course, direction, drift, tenorbody, content, substancehypothesis, proposition, purport, subject, theme, thesis sum and substance, the long and short(or the long and the short) to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matterrooted the post securely in the dirt bed, embed(also imbed), enroot, entrench(also intrench), fix, impact, implant, ingrain(also engrain), lodge imbue, infuse, instillbeat (into), drive (into)establish, place, put, settle, stick dislodge, root (out), uproot eliminate, eradicateeject, expeldetach, disconnect, disengage, remove n.origin, source, inception, root mean the point at which something begins its course or existence.origin applies to the things or persons from which something is ultimately derived and often to the causes operating before the thing itself comes into being.an investigation into the origin of baseball source applies more often to the point where something springs into being.the source of the Nile the source of recurrent trouble inception stresses the beginning of something without implying causes.the business has been a success since its inception root suggests a first, ultimate, or fundamental source often not easily discerned.the real root of the violence in the 12th century |