main

  • (s) most important element
    • the chief aim of living
    • the main doors were of solid glass
    • the principal rivers of America
    • the principal example
    • policemen were primary targets
    • the master bedroom
    • a master switch
    chief, master, principal, primary,
  • (a) (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
    • the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb
    independent,
  • (s) of force; of the greatest possible intensity
    • by main strength

Nouns

  • (n) any very large body of (salt) water briny,
  • (n) a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage

Synonyms

briny chief master principal primary independent

Antonyms

dependent subordinate

Words of close approximity

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