Synonyms for nitty-gritty
- basics
- core
- essence
- focus
- fundamentals
- gist
- heart
- kernel
- meat
- quintessence
- reality
- root
- soul
- substance
- bottom line
- brass tacks
- chief part
- chief thing
- cold fact
- essential details
- essential part
- hard fact
- heart of the matter
- important matter
- meat and potatoes
- name of the game
- nuts and bolts
- the facts
- the name of the game
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Antonyms for nitty-gritty
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WORD ORIGIN
"basic facts," 1961, knitty-gritty, American English, said to have been chiefly used by black jazz musicians, perhaps ultimately from nit and grits "finely ground corn." As an adjective from 1966.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR NITTY-GRITTY
basics
nounfundamentalsbottom line
nounindispensable contentcrux
nounmost important partdetail
nounfeature, specific aspect- ABCs
- accessory
- article
- brass tacks
- chapter and verse
- circumstantiality
- component
- count
- cue
- design
- dope
- element
- fact
- factor
- fine point
- fraction
- item
- meat and potatoes
- minor point
- minutia
- nicety
- nitty-gritty
- nuts and bolts
- part
- particular
- peculiarity
- plan
- point
- portion
- respect
- schedule
- singularity
- specialty
- specification
- structure
- technicality
- thing
- trait
- trivia
- triviality
essence
nounheart, significance- aspect
- attribute
- backbone
- base
- basis
- be-all and end-all
- being
- bottom
- bottom line
- burden
- caliber
- character
- chief constituent
- constitution
- core
- crux
- element
- entity
- essentia
- essentiality
- fiber
- form
- fundamentals
- germ
- grain
- kernel
- life
- lifeblood
- main idea
- marrow
- meaning
- meat
- name of game
- nature
- nitty-gritty
- nub
- nucleus
- pith
- point
- principle
- property
- quality
- quiddity
- quintessence
- reality
- root
- soul
- spirit
- structure
- stuff
- substance
- timber
- vein
- virtuality
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