Synonyms for marrow
ˈmær oʊmar·row

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1. marrow

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

Matched Categories

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

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1. marrownoun

   Synonyms:
   medulla, pith

2. marrownoun

   Synonyms:
   essence, quintessence, best part, essential part

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1. marrownoun

   Synonyms:
   medulla, pith

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1. List of paraphrases for "marrow":

   pith, spinal, cord, medullary, bone, medulla, bone-marrow

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How to use marrow in a sentence?

1. Samual Rutherford:

   I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

2. Jake Prus:

   There was a little apprehension when I first heard about it, because you think a bone-marrow donation is going to be kind of intense and take you out for a while physically and just drain you, i ’m not too worried about it, because, from what I’ve been told, the post effects are n’t painful.

3. 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.

4. Mrinal Patnaik:

   I trained in the early 2000s, when there was not a single oral agent for the management of AML, one of my professors had told me that AML was akin to a warlike situation where sometimes, you had to bomb the village in order to save it. We would throw these drugs that would kill everything and hope patients would recover with normal bone marrow.

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.