English Online Dictionary. What means underlying? What does underlying mean?
English
Adjective
underlying (not comparable)
- lying underneath
- We dug down to the underlying rock.
- basic or fundamental
- implicit
- Many nursery rhymes have an underlying meaning.
Translations
Noun
underlying (plural underlyings)
- (finance) The entity from whose performance a derivative derives its value.
Verb
underlying
- present participle of underlie
Anagrams
- enduringly