Synonyms for pith
pɪθpith

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1. pithnoun

   The essential or vital part.

   The pith of my idea is truth.

   Synonyms:
   core, substance, spirit, heart, nub, nitty-gritty, meat, stuff, heart and soul, essence, inwardness, kernel, gist, tenor, quintessence, marrow, soul

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1. pith

   Synonyms:
   kernel, marrow, gist, substance, essence, cream, root

   Antonyms:
   surplusage, surroundings, dressing, verbiage

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pithnoun

   soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants

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

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

   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, marrow, 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, 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

3. pithverb

   remove the pith from (a plant)

Matched Categories

1. • Plant Tissue
   • Remove

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1. pithnoun

   Synonyms:
   heart, marrow

2. pithnoun

   Synonyms:
   essence, quintessence, substance, gist, soul, chief part, essential part, vital part

3. pithnoun

   Synonyms:
   weight, moment, importance

4. pithnoun

   Synonyms:
   force, strength, energy, vigor

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1. pithnoun

   Synonyms:
   marrow, gist, heart, essence, substance

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1. List of paraphrases for "pith":

   marrow, spinal, cord, moxie

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