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Antonyms for main idea


Grammar : Noun



Definition of main idea

  • As in point : noun meaning, essence
  • As in bottom line : noun indispensable content
  • As in core : noun center, gist
  • As in essence : noun heart, significance
Example sentences :
  • The main idea in all courses was to do what you had to but no more.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • All through this their main idea has been not to trouble you.
  • Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Inevitably it turns to this sort of violence when the uneducated have seized on its main idea.
  • Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall
  • Show how the opening paragraph introduces the main idea of the story.
  • Extract from : « Americans All » by Various
  • The main idea of the story, however, is curiously distorted.
  • Extract from : « Italian Popular Tales » by Thomas Frederick Crane
  • His changes had merely muddied the plot and cheapened her main idea.
  • Extract from : « Ruth Fielding Down East » by Alice B. Emerson
  • The main idea of confession, I take it, is gettin' at the facts.
  • Extract from : « On the Frontier » by Bret Harte
  • Deliverance from his enemies is the psalmist's main idea in the word here.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 1 » by A. Maclaren
  • The main idea of the chapter is borrowed from Montaigne, Essais, l. iii.
  • Extract from : « The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal » by Blaise Pascal
  • In this lengthy working-out every part of the main idea is fully developed.
  • Extract from : « Life Of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Otto Jahn

Synonyms for main idea

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