principle

principle is a 9-letter English word with 13 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Beginning; commencement. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Beginning; commencement.
2. noun. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
3. noun. An original faculty or endowment.
4. noun. A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate.
5. noun. A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle.
6. noun. Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc.
7. transitive verb. To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.
8. noun. (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)

   "the rationale for capital punishment"

   "the principles of internal-combustion engines"

   Synonyms: rationale

9. noun. a basic truth or law or assumption

   "the principles of democracy"

10. noun. a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system

    "the principle of the conservation of mass"

    "the principle of jet propulsion"

    Synonyms: rule

11. noun. a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct

    "their principles of composition characterized all their works"

    Synonyms: rule

12. noun. a rule or standard especially of good behavior

    "a man of principle"

    "he will not violate his principles"

13. noun. rule of personal conduct

    Synonyms: precept

Synonyms

rationale, rule, precept

Common word forms

principled, principles, principling

Words from these letters

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