| Main Entry: | bottom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | base, core |
Synonyms: |
basis, bottom line, cause, essence, essentiality, ground, heart, mainspring, marrow, origin, pith, principle, quintessence, root, soul, source, stuff, substance, virtuality |
Antonyms: |
exteriority, outside |
| Main Entry: | essence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heart, significance |
Synonyms: |
aspect, attribute, backbone, base, basis, be-all and end-all, being, bottom, bottom line, burden, caliber, character, chief constituent, constitution, core, crux, element, entity, essentia, essentiality, fiber, form, fundamentals, germ, grain, kernel, life, lifeblood, main idea, marrow, meaning, meat*, name of game, nature, nitty-gritty, nub, nucleus, pith, point, principle, property, quality, quiddity, quintessence, reality, root, soul, spirit, structure, stuff, substance, timber, vein, virtuality |
| Main Entry: | marrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heart, essence |
Synonyms: |
bottom, core, cream, essentiality, gist, kernel, meat, pith, quick, quintessence, quintessential, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, virtuality |
| Main Entry: | quintessence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence, core |
Synonyms: |
apotheosis, bottom, distillation, epitome, essentiality, extract, gist, heart, kernel, last word, lifeblood, marrow, pith, quiddity, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, ultimate, virtuality |
Antonyms: |
extra |
| Main Entry: | stuff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence, substance |
Synonyms: |
bottom, bottom line, essentiality, heart, marrow, matter, meat*, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, pith, principle, quintessence, soul, staple, virtuality |
| Main Entry: | substance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence, meaning |
Synonyms: |
ABCs, amount, basis, body, bottom, bottom line, brass tacks, burden, center, core, corpus, crux, drift, effect, essentiality, focus, general meaning, gist, gravamen, guts*, heart, import, innards, kernel, marrow, mass, matter, meat*, name of the game, nitty-gritty, nub, nuts and bolts, pith, point, purport, quintessence, sense, significance, soul, staple, strength, stuff, subject, sum total, tenor, theme, thrust, upshot, virtuality, way of it |
| Main Entry: | bottom |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
bottom, basad, basal, based on, benthonic, built on, caudad, founded on, fundamental, grounded on, nethermost, undermost
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