Gist

/d͡ʒɪst/

Synonyms for "gist" (221 found)

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Closest matches (45)

Noun(21 words)

essence core crux heartheart and soulinwardness kernel marrow meat nitty-gritty nub pith substance sum bowelsbrass tacksbrief burden center centre

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core idea

affective meaningaxiom basis bearingbench markbest partbetter partbodybuilding blockbulk burdencardinal pointcase center chapterchief thingclimax coloring concern connotation

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consequence core cornerstone crisis

Strong matches (66)

critical pointcrux denotation direction distillate distillation drift effect elixir essence essentialessential matterextension fabric flower focusfocus of attentionfocus of interestforce fundamental

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generalitygrammatical meaninggravamengreat pointhead heading hearthigh pointhypostasis idea impact implication importimportant thinginner essenceintension issue kernel keystone landmarklexical meaningliteral meaningliving issuemain bodymain ideamain pointmain thingmajor partmajority marrow mass materialmaterial pointmattermatter in hand

Noun(8 words)

document outlinedrift effect gravamen guts heartstring heartstringsmain point

Adjective(2 words)

entire substanceessential idea

Verb(1 words)

identify the main idea

Related words (110)

meaning meat medium milestone most motif motivename of the gamenitty grittynub nubbin nucleusnuts and boltsovertone pertinence pith pivot plurality pointpoint at issue

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point in questionpostulatepractical consequenceprinciple problem purport question quid quiddity quintessencerange of meaningreal issuereal meaningrecap recapitulation reference referent relation relevance resume rubricrun throughrun-through rundownsalient pointsap scopesemantic clustersemantic fieldsense short significance signification significatum signifiesine qua nonsoulspan of meaningspirit strengthstructural meaningstuff subjectsubject mattersubject of thoughtsubstancesubstantive pointsumsum and substancesummary summationsymbolic meaningtenor textthe bottom linethe nitty-grittythe pointtheme thrust topictotality of associationstransferred meaningturning pointunadorned meaningundertone upshot value

Noun(20 words)

moral of the storynuts and boltsnutshells outlinepunctum salienspurports quintessence recap soul spiritstatement contentstuffsubstance relatedsubstances summary tenor tenoroon tenorsthrust forward aggressivelythrusts

Verb(3 words)

recapitulatethrust a bladethrust a spear

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More general

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cognitive contentconcept content idea import meaningmental objectrecord significance signification summary synopsis

More specific

8 entries

brief recapcentral ideacore ideacruxheart of the matterone paragraph summaryshort capsuleshort outline

Collocations

5 entries

central gistgist in plain languagegist of the articlegist of the storythe gist

Inflections

1 entries

gists

Derivations

1 entries

gistiness

Sample sentences

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I got the gist of what he was saying.

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Advanced learners of a language would usually get the gist but not the quirks.

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Tom only got the gist of what Mary was saying.

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In reality, the explanation is a bit more complicated than this, but you get the gist.

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