Antonyms for marrow
ˈmær oʊmar·row

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. marrow

   Antonyms:
   surplusage, redundancy, excrescence, superfluity, clothing, dressing, amplification, volume, mass, body

   Synonyms:
   pith, gist, substance, essence, life, cream, kernel

Matched Categories

1. • Connective Tissue
   • Content
   • Delicacy
   • Summer Squash

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. marrow, bone marrownoun

   the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones

   Synonyms:
   marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

2. marrow, marrow squash, vegetable marrownoun

   any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh

   Synonyms:
   marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

3. marrow, bone marrownoun

   very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones

   Synonyms:
   marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

4. marrow, vegetable marrownoun

   large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins

   Synonyms:
   marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

5. kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-grittynoun

   the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

   "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"

   Synonyms:
   affection, summation, warmness, sum of money, sum total, means, affectionateness, substance, center of attention, center field, content, nucleus, plaza, meaning, meat, bone marrow, centre, burden, stub, center, tenderness, snapper, core, totality, heart and soul, sum, fondness, total, nerve, core group, internality, marrow squash, nerve center, shopping center, aggregate, nub, join, kernel, nitty-gritty, union, spirit, centerfield, gist, warmheartedness, nerve centre, inwardness, centre of attention, pith, heart, shopping mall, nubble, bosom, mall, essence, ticker, message, pump, magnetic core, effect, mettle, shopping centre, perfume, spunk, philia, subject matter, amount of money, midpoint, vegetable marrow, eye, amount, middle

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. marrownoun

   Synonyms:
   medulla, pith

How to use marrow in a sentence?

1. Louise Erdrich:

   Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

2. David Kronn:

   Over the years, we’ve become aware that a bone marrow transplant early in the disease can be life-saving for these patients, but we now know that it's only effective in the early stages of the disease.

3. Laura Makaroff:

   In addition to chemotherapy, certain types of immunotherapy, stem cell or bone marrow transplants, and other medicines can severely weaken the immune system.

4. Lukasiewicz Hagai:

   We've been investigating the placenta for the last decade and we have discovered that the placenta cells have unique properties that can help the body to recover after exposure to high level of radiation, we are injecting these cells to the bodies' muscles...that will help the bone marrow to recover after radiation.

5. Thomas Merton:

   Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

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