Thesaurus / nittygritty
FEEDBACK- as inunderlying
- as invital
- as inessential
- as inmeaning
- as innitty-gritty
- as innub
- as innuts and bolts
- as inparticular
- as inpoint
- as inpoint
- as inproof
- as inrudiments
- as insense
- as insignificance
- as instuff
- as insubstance
- as interms
- as intruth
- as inbasics
- as inbrass tacks
- as inmeat and potatoes
- as inbottom line
- as inmechanics
- as ingravamen
- as inrationality
- as inrationalness
- as insignificancy
- as insignification
- as incrux
- as indetail
- as inessence
- as inessential
- as infoundation
- as infundamental
- as inheart
synonyms for nittygritty
synonyms for nittygritty
- basic
- critical
- crucial
- decisive
- fundamental
- imperative
- important
- indispensable
- integral
- key
- meaningful
- necessary
- needed
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- bottom-line
- cardinal
- coal-and-ice
- constitutive
- heavy
- life-or-death
- meat-and-potatoes
- must-have
- nitty-gritty
- prerequisite
- required
- requisite
- underlined
- absolute
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- intrinsic
- key
- main
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- cardinal
- cold
- ideal
- material
- nitty-gritty
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- perfect
- primary
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- quintessential
- substratal
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- acceptation
- allusion
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- drift
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- gist
- heart
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- intimation
- meat
- nitty-gritty
- pith
- point
- purport
- stuff
- suggestion
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- tenor
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- bottom line
- name of the game
- nature of beast
- nuts and bolts
- subject matter
- basics
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- focus
- fundamentals
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- heart
- kernel
- meat
- quintessence
- reality
- root
- soul
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- 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
- crux
- upshot
- basic
- essence
- heart
- kernel
- meat
- nitty-gritty
- nubbin
- nucleus
- pith
- point
- short
- substance
- bottom line
- meat and potatoes
- bare bones
- basic details
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- essentials
- fundamentals
- innards
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- mechanics
- nitty-gritty
- no frills
- practical details
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- ABC's
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- know
- nitty-gritty
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- nuts and bolts
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- question
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- burden
- core
- crux
- drift
- force
- gist
- head
- heart
- import
- kicker
- marrow
- meat
- motif
- motive
- nitty-gritty
- nub
- pith
- pointer
- proposition
- stuff
- text
- thrust
- tip
- tip-off
- bottom line
- main idea
- name of the game
- nuts and bolts
- punch line
- subject matter
- argument
- clue
- confirmation
- criterion
- data
- demonstration
- information
- picture
- reason
- testament
- testimony
- validation
- verification
- affidavit
- attestation
- averment
- case
- certification
- clincher
- corroboration
- credentials
- cue
- deposition
- documents
- establishment
- exhibit
- facts
- goods
- grabber
- grounds
- nitty-gritty
- reasons
- record
- scoop
- score
- skinny
- substantiation
- trace
- warrant
- wherefore
- why
- witness
- chapter and verse
- lowdown
- paper trail
- smoking gun
- straight stuff
- whyfor
- ABCs
- basics
- beginnings
- elements
- essentials
- foundation
- guts
- heart
- nitty-gritty
- principles
- first principles
- logic
- matter
- message
- significance
- understanding
- value
- acceptation
- advantage
- burden
- core
- definition
- drift
- gist
- good
- heart
- implication
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- meat
- nitty-gritty
- nuance
- nub
- purport
- purpose
- reason
- short
- signification
- stuff
- substance
- thrust
- upshot
- use
- worth
- bottom line
- denotatiton
- intendment
- meat and potatoes
- name of the game
- nature of the beast
- nuts and bolts
- punch line
- significancy
- connotation
- implication
- sense
- understanding
- acceptation
- drift
- force
- heart
- import
- kicker
- meat
- message
- nitty-gritty
- nub
- point
- purport
- score
- signification
- stuff
- bottom line
- intendment
- name of the game
- nature of the beast
- nuts and bolts
- punch line
- significancy
- matter
- meat
- bottom
- essentiality
- heart
- marrow
- nitty-gritty
- pith
- principle
- quintessence
- soul
- staple
- bottom line
- nuts and bolts
- virtuality
- amount
- effect
- meat
- significance
- strength
- stuff
- subject
- ABCs
- basis
- body
- bottom
- burden
- center
- core
- corpus
- crux
- drift
- essentiality
- focus
- gist
- guts
- heart
- import
- innards
- kernel
- marrow
- mass
- matter
- nitty-gritty
- nub
- pith
- point
- purport
- quintessence
- sense
- soul
- staple
- tenor
- theme
- thrust
- upshot
- bottom line
- brass tacks
- general meaning
- gravamen
- name of the game
- nuts and bolts
- sum total
- virtuality
- way of it
- charge
- circumstances
- conclusion
- condition
- details
- fee
- items
- nitty-gritty
- particulars
- payment
- points
- premise
- premises
- price
- provision
- provisions
- proviso
- provisos
- qualifications
- rate
- reservation
- specifications
- stipulation
- stipulations
- strings
- treaty
- understanding
- fine print
- size of it
- small print
- what it is
- accuracy
- authenticity
- certainty
- fact
- legitimacy
- principle
- truthfulness
- veracity
- actuality
- axiom
- case
- correctness
- dope
- exactitude
- exactness
- facts
- factuality
- factualness
- genuineness
- gospel
- infallibility
- maxim
- nitty-gritty
- perfection
- picture
- precision
- rectitude
- rightness
- scoop
- score
- trueness
- truism
- verisimilitude
- verity
- factualism
- gospel truth
- honest truth
- inside track
- naked truth
- plain talk
- unvarnished truth
- whole story
- ABC's
- elements
- essentials
- foundation
- nitty-gritty
- principles
- rudiments
- bare bones
- brass tacks
- first steps
- nuts and bolts
- the three R's
- basic facts
- basics
- cases
- essential facts
- essentials
- facts
- nitty-gritty
- realities
- the dope
- the scoop
- the whole story
- truth of the matter
- basis
- bottom line
- essence
- gist
- gravamen
- guts
- name of the game
- nitty-gritty
- nuts and bolts
- score
- substance
- core
- crux
- essence
- income
- profit
- reality
- basis
- conclusion
- determination
- fiber
- final decision
- fundamentals
- key point
- last word
- loss
- main idea
- main point
- main thing
- meat and potatoes
- name of the game
- net
- nitty-gritty
- nuts and bolts
- point
- sum and substance
- what it's all about
- whole story
- basic
- bosom
- bottom line
- center
- coal-and-ice
- core
- crux
- essence
- focal point
- focus
- gist
- hub
- kernel
- marrow
- meat
- middle
- nitty-gritty
- nub
- nucleus
- pith
- polestar
- quick
- quintessence
- root
- seat
- soul
- spirit
- stuff
- substance
- logic
- acceptation
- advantage
- burden
- core
- definition
- drift
- gist
- good
- heart
- implication
- import
- interpretation
- matter
- meat
- message
- nitty-gritty
- nuance
- nub
- purport
- purpose
- rationale
- rationalness
- reason
- short
- significance
- signification
- stuff
- substance
- thrust
- understanding
- upshot
- use
- value
- worth
- bottom line
- denotatiton
- intendment
- meat and potatoes
- name of the game
- nature of the beast
- nuts and bolts
- punch line
- rhyme or reason
- significancy
- acceptation
- advantage
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- core
- definition
- drift
- gist
- good
- heart
- implication
- import
- interpretation
- logic
- matter
- meat
- message
- nitty-gritty
- nuance
- nub
- purport
- purpose
- rationale
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- reason
- short
- significance
- signification
- stuff
- substance
- thrust
- understanding
- upshot
- use
- value
- worth
- bottom line
- denotatiton
- intendment
- meat and potatoes
- name of the game
- nature of the beast
- nuts and bolts
- punch line
- rhyme or reason
- significancy
- acceptation
- allusion
- bearing
- bottom line
- connotation
- content
- context
- definition
- denotation
- drift
- effect
- essence
- explanation
- force
- gist
- heart
- hint
- implication
- import
- intent
- interpretation
- intimation
- meat
- message
- name of the game
- nature of beast
- nitty-gritty
- nuance
- nuts and bolts
- pith
- point
- purport
- sense
- significance
- signification
- spirit
- stuff
- subject
- subject matter
- substance
- suggestion
- symbolization
- tenor
- thrust
- understanding
- upshot
- use
- value
- worth
- acceptation
- allusion
- bearing
- connotation
- content
- context
- definition
- denotation
- drift
- effect
- essence
- explanation
- force
- gist
- heart
- hint
- implication
- import
- intent
- interpretation
- intimation
- meat
- message
- nitty-gritty
- nuance
- pith
- point
- purport
- sense
- significance
- spirit
- stuff
- subject
- substance
- suggestion
- symbolization
- tenor
- thrust
- understanding
- upshot
- use
- value
- worth
- bottom line
- name of the game
- nature of beast
- nuts and bolts
- significancy
- subject matter
- bottom line
- core
- essence
- gist
- nub
- body
- heart
- kernel
- matter
- meat
- nitty-gritty
- pith
- purport
- substance
- thrust
- decisive point
- meat and potatoes
- article
- design
- element
- fact
- part
- plan
- schedule
- structure
- thing
- ABCs
- accessory
- component
- count
- cue
- dope
- factor
- fraction
- item
- minutia
- nicety
- nitty-gritty
- particular
- peculiarity
- point
- portion
- respect
- singularity
- specialty
- specification
- technicality
- trait
- trivia
- triviality
- brass tacks
- chapter and verse
- circumstantiality
- fine point
- meat and potatoes
- minor point
- nuts and bolts
- aspect
- basis
- bottom line
- character
- core
- crux
- element
- lifeblood
- meaning
- nature
- principle
- quality
- reality
- root
- soul
- spirit
- structure
- substance
- attribute
- backbone
- base
- being
- bottom
- burden
- caliber
- constitution
- entity
- essentiality
- fiber
- form
- fundamentals
- germ
- grain
- kernel
- life
- marrow
- meat
- nitty-gritty
- nub
- nucleus
- pith
- point
- property
- quiddity
- quintessence
- stuff
- timber
- vein
- be-all and end-all
- chief constituent
- essentia
- main idea
- name of game
- virtuality
- condition
- element
- essence
- fundamental
- must
- precondition
- prerequisite
- principle
- requirement
- requisite
- ABCs
- groceries
- guts
- heart
- nitty-gritty
- quintessence
- rudiment
- stuff
- substance
- bottom line
- brass tacks
- fire and ice
- meat and potatoes
- name of the game
- nuts and bolts
- part and parcel
- sine qua non
- vital part
- where one's at
- authority
- base
- bedrock
- groundwork
- infrastructure
- support
- ABCs
- basics
- bed
- bottom
- foot
- footing
- ground
- guts
- heart
- justification
- nitty-gritty
- nub
- prop
- reason
- root
- setup
- stay
- substratum
- substructure
- understructure
- bottom line
- brass tacks
- nuts and bolts
- underpinning
- bottom line
- component
- cornerstone
- element
- factor
- foundation
- law
- principle
- ABCs
- axiom
- basis
- constituent
- guts
- heart
- nitty-gritty
- rudiment
- rule
- theorem
- brass tacks
- coal-and-ice
- principium
- rock bottom
- sine qua non
- center
- core
- focus
- middle
- root
- soul
- basic
- bosom
- crux
- gist
- hub
- kernel
- marrow
- nitty-gritty
- nub
- nucleus
- pith
- polestar
- quick
- quintessence
- seat
- bottom line
- coal-and-ice
- focal point
antonyms for nittygritty
MOST RELEVANT
- additional
- extra
- inessential
- insignificant
- meaningless
- minor
- needless
- nonessential
- optional
- secondary
- trivial
- uncritical
- unimportant
- unnecessary
- useless
- voluntary
- worthless
- dead
- dull
- sluggish
- acquired
- extrinsic
- incidental
- inessential
- insignificant
- learned
- nonessential
- secondary
- unimportant
- flawed
- imperfect
- minor
- wrong
- accessory
- atypical
- auxiliary
- subsidiary
- boredom
- disinterest
- ineffectiveness
- invalidity
- repulsion
- uselessness
- bluntness
- dullness
- personality
- whole
- cowardice
- exterior
- exteriority
- fear
- insignificance
- nothing
- nothingness
- outside
- periphery
- surface
- poverty
- falsehood
- falseness
- flaw
- imperfection
- imprecision
- inaccuracy
- inexactness
- dishonesty
- disloyalty
- invention
- lie
- misrepresentation
- untruth
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