Definition of foundational in English:
foundational
adjective faʊnˈdeɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lfounˈdāSH(ə)nəl
Denoting an underlying basis or principle; fundamental.
the foundational principles of Christianity
rules are a foundational element in game design
Example sentencesExamples
- The drawings are foundational for much of today's practice.
- Knowledge of species is foundational to the understanding of biodiversity.
- The rhetorical construction of the subject is the foundational gesture of lyrical utterance.
- Establishing a utopian society in the wilderness is a foundational concept within American ideology.
- I present some foundational concepts followed by a simplified summary of classical approaches to ethics.
- Her choice of only well-established older male theorists and her use of their work as foundational rather than liminal becomes suspect.
- This scenario depends upon Freud's foundational assumption that instincts can be converted into their opposites.
- The paradoxes involved in the notion of an avant-garde tradition are foundational to any attempt to teach experimental writing.
- The "conception of vital process" is one of the foundational truths of modernism.
- The foundational tenet of existentialism is that existence precedes essence.