Synonyms for Principle:

• adj.

  •instrumental (adjective)
  • useful,
  • valuable,
  • instrumental,
  • helpful,
  • effectual.

• n.

  •
  • source.
  •
  • outline,
  • gloss,
  • system.
  •
  • order,
  • purity,
  • goodness,
  • good,
  • respectability,
  • decency,
  • right,
  • modesty,
  • virtue,
  • propriety,
  • universal.
  •
  • character,
  • strong.
  •axiom (noun)
  • axiom.
  •base (noun)
  • infra structures,
  • under-pinning,
  • chief constituents,
  • infra structure,
  • infra-structures,
  • primary elements,
  • important parts,
  • under pinning.
  •basis (noun)
  • pre mises,
  • ex-planations,
  • pre supposition,
  • sub stratum,
  • sub-strata,
  • principal elements,
  • pre-supposition,
  • pre-suppositions,
  • ex-planation,
  • sub-stratums,
  • pre mise,
  • sub strata,
  • sub stratums,
  • chief ingredients,
  • pre-mise,
  • pre-mises,
  • ex planations,
  • pre suppositions,
  • ex planation,
  • sub-stratum.
  •beginning (noun)
  • germs.
  •belief (noun)
  • creed,
  • thought,
  • philosophy,
  • trust,
  • credence,
  • dogma,
  • view,
  • certitude,
  • tenet.
  •bottom (noun)
  • mainsprings,
  • piths,
  • Virtuality,
  • mainspring,
  • essentiality.
  •canon (noun)
  • de-crees,
  • decretums,
  • de-cree,
  • de crees,
  • de cree.
  •cause (noun)
  • determinant,
  • causation,
  • Causations,
  • prime mover,
  • determinants,
  • maker,
  • motivations.
  •cognition (noun)
  • principle.
  •constancy (noun)
  • de terminations,
  • de-terminations,
  • re-solution,
  • un-changeablenesses,
  • un-changeableness,
  • un-failingnesses,
  • unfailingnesses,
  • staunchnesses,
  • un changeableness,
  • un-failingness,
  • un changeablenesses,
  • re-solutions,
  • un failingnesses,
  • re solutions,
  • unchangeablenesses,
  • trustinesses,
  • de termination,
  • un failingness,
  • abidingnesses,
  • devotednesses,
  • de-termination,
  • trustworthinesses.
  •constituent (noun)
  • fixin,
  • plug ins,
  • part parcel,
  • plugins.
  •conviction (noun)
  • judgment calls.
  •criterion (noun)
  • ex-ample,
  • ex ample,
  • point comparison.
  •dictate (noun)
  • be-hest,
  • in-junction,
  • be hest,
  • be hests,
  • be-hests,
  • in junction,
  • in-junctions,
  • in junctions.
  •discovery (noun)
  • finding,
  • Algorithms,
  • luck out,
  • algorithm.
  •element (noun)
  • constituent,
  • Integrant.
  •elixir (noun)
  • ex tract,
  • cure all,
  • elixir life,
  • ex-tracts,
  • philosophers stones,
  • Cureall,
  • philosophers stone,
  • philosopher stones,
  • ex-tract,
  • elixir,
  • philosopher's stones,
  • philosopher stone.
  •essence (noun)
  • be-all end-all,
  • be all end all,
  • name game,
  • main ideas,
  • lifebloods,
  • essentias,
  • nittygritty.
  •essential (noun)
  • nuts bolts,
  • pre requisite,
  • where ats,
  • name the game,
  • fire ices,
  • where one ats,
  • pre conditions,
  • fire and ices,
  • pre condition,
  • where ones at,
  • meat potatoes,
  • where ones ats,
  • where at,
  • fire ice,
  • where one at,
  • pre-condition,
  • where one's ats,
  • pre requisites.
  •ethic (noun)
  • value-system,
  • ethical values,
  • moral philosophy,
  • ethicalness,
  • set of values,
  • ethical code.
  •faith (noun)
  • ortho doxies,
  • de-nomination,
  • re velation,
  • de nominations,
  • re velations,
  • theisms,
  • re-velations,
  • re-velation,
  • ortho-doxy,
  • de-nominations,
  • ortho doxy,
  • ortho-doxies,
  • de nomination.
  •fundamental (noun)
  • coal and ices,
  • coal ices,
  • coal ice,
  • coal and ice.
  •generality (noun)
  • halftruth,
  • loose statements,
  • half-truths,
  • halftruths,
  • sweeping statements,
  • abstract principles.
  •honesty (noun)
  • reputabilities,
  • outspokennesses,
  • straightforwardnesses,
  • evenhandednesses,
  • self respect,
  • self-respects,
  • up rightness,
  • bluntnesses,
  • selfrespect,
  • up rightnesses,
  • straightnesses,
  • up-rightness,
  • up-rightnesses,
  • impeccabilities.
  •hypothesis (noun)
  • pro positions,
  • sur mises,
  • starting points,
  • sur mise,
  • shot dark,
  • shot the dark,
  • sur-mises,
  • tentative laws,
  • hypo thesis,
  • apriorities,
  • sur-mise,
  • pro position,
  • hypo-thesis,
  • pro-positions,
  • Lemmata,
  • shot in dark.
  •idea (noun)
  • image,
  • conception,
  • inspiration,
  • plan,
  • theory,
  • design,
  • ideation,
  • observation,
  • notion,
  • inkling,
  • perception,
  • supposition,
  • vision,
  • reflection,
  • brainstorm.
  •incorruptibility (noun)
  • in corruptibility,
  • in-corruptibility,
  • in-corruptibilities,
  • in corruptibilities.
  •institute (noun)
  • pre scripts,
  • pre-scripts,
  • pre-script,
  • pre script.
  •instruction (noun)
  • dictum,
  • credo,
  • policy,
  • bidding,
  • moral,
  • adage,
  • edict,
  • teaching,
  • doctrine,
  • saying,
  • saw,
  • directive,
  • motto,
  • ordinance,
  • code,
  • byword,
  • proverb,
  • instruction,
  • catchword.
  •integrity (noun)
  • honestnesses,
  • forthrightnesses,
  • in-corruption,
  • in corruptions,
  • incorruptions,
  • in corruption,
  • in-corruptions.
  •in theory (noun)
  • in essence,
  • ideally,
  • theoretically.
  •keynote/keystone (noun)
  • basic ideas.
  •keystone (noun)
  • head stone.
  •law, standard (noun)
  • ground,
  • golden rule,
  • ethic,
  • convention,
  • foundation,
  • assumption,
  • usage,
  • proposition,
  • verity,
  • form.
  •line (noun)
  • course of action,
  • line.
  •morality (noun)
  • saintlinesses,
  • good habit,
  • worthinesses.
  •nucleus (noun)
  • beginning buds.
  •origin (noun)
  • horses mouth,
  • horse's mouths,
  • pro genitors,
  • pro genitor,
  • well-springs,
  • horse mouths,
  • well springs,
  • pro-genitors,
  • horses mouths,
  • horse mouth,
  • well spring,
  • pro-genitor.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • basic idea,
  • generalization,
  • discovery,
  • exemplar,
  • evidence,
  • hard facts,
  • bluntness,
  • pre-requisites,
  • Intendment,
  • law,
  • reputability,
  • staunchness,
  • plug-in,
  • generality,
  • generalisation,
  • hypothesis,
  • straightness,
  • ulterior motive,
  • morality,
  • soul,
  • worthiness,
  • dependabilities,
  • straightforwardness,
  • universality,
  • whole idea,
  • Well-spring,
  • secret self,
  • fixins,
  • equity,
  • essential,
  • outspokenness,
  • manners,
  • Lemmas,
  • value,
  • quiddity,
  • platform,
  • theism,
  • Philosophies,
  • point of comparison,
  • groundwork,
  • breath of life,
  • honestness,
  • whyfor,
  • canon,
  • chief constituent,
  • sweeping statement,
  • pre-conditions,
  • dependability,
  • explanation,
  • assertion,
  • name of game,
  • vital part,
  • base,
  • keystones,
  • Principia,
  • theorem,
  • essentia,
  • truthfulness,
  • criterion,
  • evenhandedness,
  • rock bottom,
  • pre-requisite,
  • justness,
  • basis,
  • starting point,
  • whatfor,
  • equation,
  • where one's at,
  • trustiness,
  • cause,
  • sportsmanship,
  • honesty,
  • belief,
  • infrastructure,
  • Quiddities,
  • fundamental,
  • intendments,
  • by-word,
  • causality,
  • where one's headed,
  • prerequisites,
  • dictate,
  • the big idea,
  • forthrightness,
  • generalizations,
  • the whole idea,
  • be all and end all,
  • formula,
  • guideline,
  • important part,
  • recesses of heart,
  • horse's mouth,
  • zeal,
  • thesis,
  • plugin,
  • constancy,
  • bourn,
  • linchpins,
  • main idea,
  • stuff,
  • trustworthiness,
  • unchangeableness,
  • Apriority,
  • chief ingredient,
  • keynote,
  • lemma,
  • Causalities,
  • screeds,
  • prescript,
  • staples,
  • nuts and bolts,
  • table,
  • law of nature,
  • truth,
  • Apriorism,
  • decretum,
  • doxy,
  • unfailingness,
  • fire and ice,
  • rule,
  • incorruption,
  • noumenon,
  • Formularies,
  • philosopher's stone,
  • spiritual being,
  • good habits,
  • plug in,
  • roots,
  • keystone,
  • abstract principle,
  • incorruptibility,
  • principium,
  • precept,
  • natural law,
  • rationale,
  • loose statement,
  • half truths,
  • origins,
  • Formulary,
  • nitty-gritty,
  • elixir of life,
  • purpose,
  • abidingness,
  • Doxies,
  • conviction,
  • universalities,
  • postulate,
  • primary element,
  • bourns,
  • tentative law,
  • generators,
  • basics,
  • bottom,
  • nucleus,
  • Impeccability,
  • spiritual beings,
  • paradigm,
  • pneuma,
  • regulation,
  • ethicality,
  • Provenience,
  • requirement,
  • institute,
  • upstandingness,
  • lifeblood,
  • half-truth,
  • nitty gritty,
  • rootstock,
  • vital parts,
  • plug-ins,
  • linchpin,
  • premise,
  • principal element,
  • why and wherefore,
  • sake,
  • hard fact,
  • keynotes,
  • gamesmanship,
  • beginning,
  • judgment call,
  • part and parcel,
  • infra-structure,
  • beginning bud,
  • regularity,
  • by-words,
  • thing,
  • maxim,
  • integrity,
  • essence,
  • half truth,
  • big idea,
  • veracity,
  • element,
  • requirements,
  • say so,
  • devotedness,
  • faith,
  • screed,
  • saintliness.
  •platform (noun)
  • soapbox,
  • manifesto,
  • soapboxes.
  •precept (noun)
  • by words,
  • pre-cept,
  • pre cept,
  • by word.
  •purpose (noun)
  • pro spect,
  • whatfors,
  • pre meditations,
  • re-solve,
  • where headed,
  • where one headed,
  • pro spects,
  • why wherefore,
  • re solves,
  • big ideas,
  • de-sires,
  • where ones headed,
  • in tents,
  • de sire,
  • re-solves,
  • ulterior motives,
  • pre meditation,
  • in tent,
  • pro-spects,
  • pre-meditations,
  • why wherefores,
  • whole ideas,
  • where headeds,
  • re solve,
  • why and wherefores,
  • whyfors,
  • pre-meditation,
  • where one headeds,
  • where ones headeds,
  • where one's headeds,
  • de-sire,
  • de sires.
  •rationale (noun)
  • song dance,
  • raison detre,
  • ex-positions,
  • the big ideas,
  • the whole ideas,
  • ex-position.
  •regulation (noun)
  • no-no,
  • no-nos,
  • REGS,
  • Reg,
  • numbers.
  •sake (noun)
  • final cause.
  •soul (noun)
  • dis positions,
  • dis-positions,
  • breath life,
  • animating principles,
  • noumena,
  • animating principle,
  • pneumas,
  • dis position,
  • secret selves,
  • dis-position,
  • recesses heart.
  •sportsmanship (noun)
  • gamesmanships.
  •thesis (noun)
  • apriorisms.
  •topic (noun)
  • idea,
  • presumption,
  • argument,
  • theme,
  • query,
  • inference,
  • matter,
  • problem,
  • statement,
  • point,
  • exposition,
  • position,
  • consideration,
  • question,
  • postulation,
  • concept,
  • topic,
  • conjecture,
  • opinion,
  • text,
  • essay,
  • contention,
  • issue,
  • dissertation,
  • motif,
  • subject.
  •truth (noun)
  • legitimacy,
  • plain talk,
  • factualism,
  • unvarnished truth,
  • infallibility,
  • trueness,
  • whole story,
  • factualness,
  • honest truth.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • consequence,
  • origin.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • exegesis,
  • clarification,
  • idealism,
  • old wives' tale,
  • interpretative,
  • doublethink,
  • stereotype,
  • sentiment,
  • reverie,
  • nostrum,
  • fallacy,
  • delusion,
  • picture,
  • interpretation,
  • bandwagon,
  • explanatory,
  • interpretive,
  • construct,
  • ideal,
  • reference point,
  • deduction,
  • abstraction,
  • illusion,
  • shibboleth,
  • illumination,
  • echo,
  • thread,
  • daydream,
  • message,
  • expectation,
  • siege mentality,
  • wishful thinking,
  • brainwave,
  • superstructure,
  • eccentricity,
  • flavor,
  • meeting ground,
  • commitment,
  • enlightenment.
  •
  • preamble,
  • pillar,
  • head,
  • conclusion,
  • orthodoxy,
  • calculation,
  • rationalization,
  • projection,
  • sense,
  • model.
  •
  • flash.
  •
  • fiber.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • habit,
  • necessity,
  • persuasion,
  • sober,
  • center,
  • substance,
  • centre,
  • agent,
  • point of view,
  • economise,
  • type,
  • impartiality,
  • reason,
  • bind,
  • commandment,
  • conscience,
  • mild,
  • imitate,
  • basically,
  • rightness,
  • determinative,
  • permanently,
  • customarily,
  • sample,
  • perpetually,
  • action,
  • leaven,
  • extract,
  • relentlessly,
  • measure,
  • understructure,
  • gist,
  • opening,
  • focus,
  • honour,
  • impulse,
  • method,
  • continual,
  • test,
  • paragon,
  • natural,
  • rudimentary,
  • fair play,
  • solid ground,
  • inclination,
  • substratum,
  • truism,
  • elements,
  • govern,
  • elementary,
  • custom,
  • hypostasis,
  • structure,
  • basement,
  • considerable,
  • sill,
  • core,
  • hold,
  • assent,
  • principled,
  • fond,
  • endless,
  • standard,
  • flooring,
  • confine,
  • scientific law,
  • decree,
  • reasoning,
  • follow,
  • mores,
  • motive,
  • norma,
  • dominion,
  • genuine,
  • fiat,
  • parenchyma,
  • factor,
  • grounds,
  • body of instruction,
  • quintessence,
  • constant,
  • fundamentals,
  • linguistic rule,
  • Substruction,
  • reason for being,
  • frequently,
  • Brocard,
  • bedding,
  • object,
  • party line,
  • ethics,
  • commonly,
  • drive,
  • working principle,
  • author,
  • tao,
  • Arriere Pensee,
  • corollary,
  • beau,
  • frame,
  • attitude,
  • way of thinking,
  • repress,
  • aspiration,
  • lodestar,
  • quid,
  • intent,
  • gnome,
  • flower,
  • goal,
  • all the time,
  • procedure,
  • support,
  • marrow,
  • profession of faith,
  • natural state,
  • undergirding,
  • pronounce,
  • even-handedness,
  • strategy,
  • righteousness,
  • everlasting,
  • correctness,
  • etiology,
  • scruples,
  • apophthegm,
  • radical,
  • main points,
  • restrain,
  • stimulus,
  • contain,
  • ways and means,
  • grammar,
  • rectify,
  • solid rock,
  • Riprap,
  • apothegm,
  • ceaselessly,
  • movement,
  • seat,
  • express,
  • reason why,
  • firmly,
  • premises,
  • guiding star,
  • nature,
  • being,
  • basic,
  • management,
  • grassroots,
  • endlessly,
  • universal truth,
  • body,
  • substantial,
  • mitzvah,
  • way,
  • ordinarily,
  • yardstick,
  • ambition,
  • generally,
  • pavement,
  • circumscribe,
  • kernel,
  • curtail,
  • Underpinning,
  • pith,
  • vocation,
  • constantly,
  • aim,
  • data,
  • motivation,
  • right side,
  • mandate,
  • set form,
  • formality,
  • suppose,
  • slogan,
  • background,
  • real,
  • given,
  • interest,
  • aphorism,
  • rubric,
  • crusade,
  • brute matter,
  • at bottom,
  • objective,
  • universal law,
  • direction,
  • speak,
  • foundation-stone,
  • approach,
  • polity,
  • practice,
  • Stylobate,
  • antecedent,
  • nub,
  • predication,
  • battle cry,
  • touchstone,
  • statute,
  • producer,
  • organization,
  • abiding,
  • infer,
  • grace,
  • working rule,
  • Occasioner,
  • call,
  • uprightness,
  • perpetual,
  • in theory,
  • guess,
  • norm,
  • continuously,
  • undercarriage,
  • Primum Mobile,
  • formal,
  • injunction,
  • constitution,
  • ever,
  • charge,
  • order of things,
  • popular belief,
  • pabulum,
  • Underbuilding,
  • steadily,
  • bedrock,
  • sap,
  • rudiment,
  • great cause,
  • plank,
  • footing,
  • unwritten law,
  • meat,
  • case,
  • rudiments,
  • absolute,
  • yet,
  • occasion,
  • calling,
  • usually,
  • ideals,
  • inhibit,
  • sincere,
  • article,
  • ideology,
  • continually,
  • Stereobate,
  • probity,
  • target,
  • normal,
  • uniformly,
  • primitive,
  • justice,
  • cornerstone,
  • morals,
  • ukase,
  • feeling,
  • ruler,
  • however,
  • lasting,
  • antecedents,
  • tactic,
  • standing order,
  • anlage,
  • activity,
  • fairness,
  • fundamentally,
  • everlastingly,
  • conduct,
  • jurisprudence,
  • principles,
  • legislation,
  • crux,
  • curb,
  • corpus,
  • very,
  • stance,
  • article of faith,
  • outlook,
  • pro and con,
  • administer,
  • rectitude,
  • conventional,
  • tradition,
  • talk,
  • intention,
  • sine qua non,
  • bound,
  • surmise,
  • lifework,
  • hyle,
  • terms,
  • material,
  • say,
  • temperate,
  • imperative,
  • heart,
  • benchmark,
  • judgment,
  • Standards,
  • normally,
  • guide,
  • pure,
  • self-evident truth,
  • actual,
  • fundament,
  • good character,
  • regularly,
  • spring,
  • always,
  • unimpeachability,
  • bed,
  • cause and effect,
  • habitually,
  • Gravamen,
  • person in charge,
  • significance,
  • scheme,
  • programme,
  • intrinsic,
  • solid,
  • pattern,
  • ruling,
  • restrict,
  • terra firma,
  • thinking,
  • often,
  • substructure,
  • spirit,
  • essentially,
  • score,
  • eternally,
  • bearing wall,
  • constrain,
  • behaviour,
  • logic,
  • hardpan,
  • gauge,
  • normal state,
  • example,
  • protocol,
  • prevent,
  • viewpoint,
  • prescription,
  • guiding light,
  • floor,
  • eternal,
  • archetype,
  • mass movement,
  • incessantly,
  • campaign.

Paraphrases for Principle:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    principles.
  • Adverb
    principles.
  • Verb, past tense
    principles.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    principles.
  • Verb, base form
    principles.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    rules.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    rules.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    central, theoretical.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Standards, Ones, doctrine, doctrines, principes, theory.
  • Noun, plural
    perspectives, precepts, considerations, interests, tenets, ingredients, sections, Possibilities, beginnings, claims, powers, LINEs, doctrines, provisions, principes.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    premise, precept, assumption, essence, outset, criterion, spirit, presumption, requirement, doctrine, proposition, reasoning, practice, matter, logic, starting-point, maxim, priori, ingredient, inception, provision, substance, fact, subsidiarity, perspective, postulate, accordance, purpose, application, belief, scratch, motto, theory.
  • Adverb
    tentatively, fundamentally, normally, originally, initially.
  • Verb, past tense
    proposed, Began, Stipulated, acknowledged, stressed, Was, noted, granted.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    guiding, according, Registering, assuming, fighting, keeping.
  • Verb, past participle
    guaranteed, projected, scheduled, Promoted, Regarded, applied, accomplished, intended, supposed, anticipated, Reached, assumed, maintained, granted, based, stated.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    depends, recognizes, follows, affirms, tends, works, requires, brings, dictates, assumes, calls, holds, states.

• Other Related

  • Coordinating conjunction
    rationale.
  • Determiner
    rationale.
  • Adjective
    rationale.
  • Proper noun, singular
    rationale.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    rationale.

Antonyms for Principle:

• n.

  • law, standard
    effect, result, end, ambiguity.

Homophones for Principle:

• principal.

Hypernym for Principle:

• n.

  • cognition
    Le Chatelier-braun Principle, tao, Pleasure-unpleasure Principle, feng shui, principle of parsimony, reality principle, moral principle, Knightliness, logic, Le Chatelier Principle, Gresham's Law, localization, localisation, legal principle, ethic, law of parsimony, basic principle, Ockham's Razor, Localisation Of Function, mass-action principle, principle of superposition, Occam's Razor, Huygens' Principle Of superposition, judicial principle, pleasure-pain principle, mass action, chivalry, judicial doctrine, localization of function, Yin, dictate, localization principle, Gestalt principle of organization, Naegele's Rule, Le Chatelier's Principle, Yang, value orientation, accounting standard, pillar, superposition principle, mass-energy equivalence, basics, Localisation Principle, fundamental principle, bedrock, accounting principle, fundamentals, scruple, value-system, principle of equivalence, Le Chatelier's Law, conservation, hellenism, Gestalt law of organization, pleasure principle, insurrectionism, superposition, principle of liquid displacement.

Hyponym for Principle:

• n.

  • cognition
    generality, generalisation, law of nature, law, value, generalization, natural law.