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What is the adjective for underlain?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs underlay, underlie and underly which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

underlying
  1. lying underneath
  2. basic or fundamental
  3. implicit
  4. Synonyms:
      5. basic, fundamental, basal, elementary, essential, elemental, primary, prime, root, cardinal, intrinsic, principal, rudimentary, abecedarian, beginning, central, chief, core, first, introductory, key, main, vital, critical, radical, rudimental, causal, crucial, indispensable, necessary, primitive, nitty-gritty, meat-and-potatoes, bottom-line, inherent, foundational, constitutional, innate, integral, natural, constitutive, original, important, initial, primal, foremost, ingrained, dominant, paramount, deep-rooted … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “These humorous essays illuminate an underlying principle of the healing process.”
      “His calm demeanor belied an underlying air of frustration.”
      “We drilled down to the underlying rock.”
underlinked
  1. Having underlying links; subtly interconnected.
  2. Not linked strongly enough.
underly
  1. (dialectal) Poor; inferior.
under
  1. Being lower; being beneath something.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. anaesthetised, anesthetized, sedated, unconscious, knocked out, out cold, asleep, deadened, frozen, numb, comatose, knocked for six, out for the count, knocked unconscious, stupefied, motionless, passed out, catatonic, blacked out, out like a light, dead to the world, unaware, unresponsive, confused, senseless, stunned, out, dazed, benumbed, lifeless, collapsed, inert, immobile, prostrate, torpid, cold, soporous, flattened, kayoed, soporose, out on one's feet, laid out, cataleptic, out of it, keeled over, unarousable, on the canvas, KO'd, flaked out, in a coma … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Surgery could commence now that the patient was under.”
underlaid
  1. simple past tense and past participle of underlay
underlaying
  1. present participle of underlay
underlain
  1. past participle of underlie
  2. Synonyms:
      3. caused, inspired, motivated, triggered, brought about, lain behind, lain beneath, supported, reinforced, held, holden, shouldered, bolstered, braced, propped, upheld, upholden, buoyed, carried, crutched, steadied, sustained, underpinned, borne, beared, buttressed, cradled, shored, stood, stayed, undergirded, upborne, upbore, held up, bolstered up, propped up, kept up, shored up, kept from falling, strengthened, fortified, underpropped, jacked up, given support to, bore, underlay, lay beneath, gave support to, maintained … more
underlain
  1. past participle of underlie
  2. Synonyms:
      3. caused, inspired, motivated, triggered, brought about, lain behind, lain beneath, supported, reinforced, held, holden, shouldered, bolstered, braced, propped, upheld, upholden, buoyed, carried, crutched, steadied, sustained, underpinned, borne, beared, buttressed, cradled, shored, stood, stayed, undergirded, upborne, upbore, held up, bolstered up, propped up, kept up, shored up, kept from falling, strengthened, fortified, underpropped, jacked up, given support to, bore, underlay, lay beneath, gave support to, maintained … more
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