| Main Entry: | groceries |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
Synonyms: |
comestibles, edibles, foodstuffs, perishables, produce, staples, vegetables, viands |
| Main Entry: | earnings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money for work performed |
Synonyms: |
balance, bottom line, emolument, gain, gate, groceries, in the black, income, lucre, net, pay, payoff, piece of the pie, proceeds, profit, receipts, remuneration, return, revenue, reward, salary, salt, stipend, take-home, takings, wages |
Antonyms: |
bills, debt, losses, payout |
| Main Entry: | essential |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessity, basic |
Synonyms: |
ABCs, bottom line, brass tacks, condition, element, essence, fire and ice, fundamental, groceries, guts*, heart, meat and potatoes, must, name of the game, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, part and parcel, precondition, prerequisite, principle, quintessence, requirement, requisite, rudiment, sine qua non, stuff, substance, vital part, where one's at |
| Notes: | the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...) |
Antonyms: |
accessory, auxiliary, nonessential, subsidiary, throwaway, trivia |
| Main Entry: | food |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edible material |
Synonyms: |
aliment, bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow, comestible, cookery, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats, entrée, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, foodstuff, goodies, grit, groceries, grub, handout, home cooking, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, moveable feast, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provision, ration, refreshment, slop, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, take out, tuck, viand, victual, vittles |
Antonyms: |
beverage, drink |
| Main Entry: | larder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | provisions |
Synonyms: |
food supply, groceries, pantry, provender, stock, storage, supplies |
| Main Entry: | victuals |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food supplies |
Synonyms: |
aliment, bread, chow, comestibles, eatables, eats, edibles, fare, feed, foodstuff, goodies, groceries, grub, larder, meal, nourishment, provender, provisions, rations, refreshments, snack, supplies, viands, vittles |
| Main Entry: | vittles |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
Synonyms: |
chow, comestibles, eatables, eats, edibles, fare, foodstuff, goodies, groceries, grub, larder, meal, nourishment, provender, provisions, refreshments, snack, viands, victuals |
| Main Entry: | provisions |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supplies |
Synonyms: |
board, chow, fare, feed, fodder, food, forage, groceries, provender, rations, stores, viands, victuals |
| Main Entry: | foodstuff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
Synonyms: |
aliment, comestible, comestibles, eatables, edible, edibles, fare, fodder, groceries, grub, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, provision, provisions, rations, staple, sustenance, viand, viands, victual, victuals |
| Main Entry: | pap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
Synonyms: |
aliment, bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow, comestible, cookery, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats, edible, entrée, esculent, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, foodstuff, goodies, grit, groceries, grub, handout, home cooking, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, moveable feast, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, slop, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, take out*, tuck, viand, victual, vittles |