Principle - synonyms

Total 204 synonym synonyms found for principle.

Procrustean law

a belief

a priori truth

activity

ambition

antecedents

article of faith

aspiration

at bottom

attitude

axiom

base

basement

basically

basis

bearing wall

bed

bedding

bedrock

belief

brocard

call

calling

campaign

canon

causation

cause

cause and effect

center

code

commandment

commitment

conscience

consideration

convention

core

credo

creed

criterion

crusade

determinant

determinative

dictate

dictum

doctrine

dogma

drive

element

elements

elixir

essence

essential

essentially

ethic

etiology

factor

faith

floor

flooring

flower

focus

fond

footing

form

formality

formula

formulary

foundation

fundament

fundamental

fundamentally

fundamentals

general principle

gist

given

goal

golden rule

grammar

gravamen

great cause

ground

grounds

groundwork

guide

guideline

guiding light

guiding principle

guiding star

hardpan

heart

honesty

hypostasis

idea

ideal

ideally

imperative

in essence

in theory

inner essence

inspiration

integrity

intention

interest

issue

kernel

law

law of nature

lifework

lodestar

mainspring

marrow

mass movement

matter

maxim

meat

mitzvah

model

moral

morality

morals

motive

movement

norm

norma

notion

nub

nucleus

nuts and bolts

occasion

order of nature

ordinance

pavement

philosophy

pith

point of view

postulate

precept

prescribed form

prescription

principium

principles

probity

proposition

quid

quiddity

quintessence

radical

reason

reason for being

regulation

riprap

rock bottom

rubric

rudiment

rudiments

rule

sake

sap

score

seat

self-evident truth

sentiment

set form

settled principle

sill

solid ground

solid rock

soul

source

spirit

spring

standard

standing order

stereobate

stimulus

stuff

stylobate

substance

substratum

substruction

substructure

teaching

tenet

terra firma

the nitty-gritty

theorem

theoretically

truism

truth

ulterior motive

underbuilding

undercarriage

undergirding

underpinning

understruction

understructure

universal law

universal truth

uprightness

usage

viewpoint

vocation

working principle

working rule