Main Entry: bare

Parts of Speech: adjective

Definition: simple, unadorned

Synonyms: cold, bald, mere, stark, meager, scant,

 blunt, sheer, spare, austere, basic, chaste,

essential, hard, literal, modest, severe, simple,

unembellished, unornamented

Antonyms: decorated, adorned, full, covered,

robed, thick, clothed

Main Entry: bare bones

Parts of Speech: noun

Definition: basic elements

Synonyms: basic, core, frame, skeleton, basic

facts, essential elements, no-frills, undercarriage

Main Entry: barest

Parts of Speech: adjective

Definition: simple, unadorned

Synonyms: cold, bald, mere, stark, meager, scant,

blunt, sheer, spare, austere, basic, chaste,

essential, hard, literal, modest, severe, simple,

unembellished, unornamented

Antonyms: decorated, adorned, full, covered,

robed, thick, clothed

Main Entry: bottomw

Parts of Speech: adjective

Definition: lowest; fundamental

Synonyms: last, radical, basement, primary,

underlying, base, basic, ground, basal, lowest,

lowermost, nethermost, undermost, foundational,

meat-and-potatoes, rock-bottom

Antonyms: secondary, unnecessary, top, highest,

nonessential

Main Entry: brass tacks

Parts of Speech: adjective

Definition: pithy

Synonyms: basic, compact, marrowy, practical, to-

the-point, useful

Main Entry: brass-tacks

Parts of Speech: adjective

Definition: pithy

Synonyms: basic, compact, marrowy, practical,

useful, to the point

Main Entry: capital

Parts of Speech: adjective

Definition: main, essential

Synonyms: central, prime, major, dominant,

leading, primary, chief, cardinal, fundamental,

basic, principal, first, controlling, foremost,

important, number one, outstanding, paramount,

predominant, preeminent, prominent, underlying,

vital, overruling ko

Antonyms: low-class, poor, secondary, inferior,

nonessential, least, trivial, extra, auxiliary,

additional, inessential, last, subordinate,

unimportant, insignificant, minor, lesser

Main Entry: cardinal

Parts of Speech: adjective

Definition: important, key

Synonyms: overriding, prime, central, leading,

primary, first, chief, ruling, fundamental, basic,

main, essential, principal, basal, foremost, highest,

indispensable, paramount, pivotal, preeminent,

vital, constitutive, greatest, overruling

Antonyms: inferior, secondary, outside, negligible,

insignificant, nonessential, trivial, extra, auxiliary,

additional, unnecessary, inessential, least,

unimportant, subordinate, last, peripheral, minor

Main Entry: central

Parts of Speech: adjective

Definition: main, principal; in the middle

Synonyms: paramount, key, important, pivotal,

fundamental, basic, significant, essential, prime,

salient, dominant, center, radical, median, primary,

middle, chief, intermediate, master, ruling, leading,

interior, cardinal, midway, mean, equidistant, focal,

foremost, inmost, inner, mid, outstanding,

overriding, predominant, umbilical, axial, centric,

centroidal, middlemost, midmost, nuclear,

omphalic

Antonyms: extreme, outside, inferior,

unsubstantial, secondary, peripheral, outer,

exterior, subordinate, extra, auxiliary, additional,

unimportant, nonessential, insignificant,

inessential, trivial, minor

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