Synonyms and Antonyms of body
1
the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts
- the body of the novel was quite good, even if the beginning was a bit slow
majority
aggregate, amount, entirety, quantum, sum, sum total, total, totality, whole
bottom, essence, essentiality, marrow, meat, nature, pith, quintessence, root, soul, stuff, substance
center, heart, hub, kernel, middle, nucleus, nut, seat
affair, argument, burden, crux, focus, gist, nub, pitch, point, purport
matter, motif, subject, text, theme, topic
accessory (also accessary), adjunct, appendage, extension, offshoot
component, constituent, element, ingredient
division, part, piece, section, segment
angle, aspect, facet, feature, quality, side
2
a distinct and separate portion of matter
- to the early explorers the Atlantic was a gigantic and forbidding body of water
aggregate, amount, bulk, quantity, quantum, volume
item, object, thing
material, stuff, substance
entirety, totality, whole
3
a group of people acting together within a larger group
- feared that there was a body of extremists within the labor union
4
a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially
- a hangout where, it seems, much of the student body can be found on a Saturday night
bunch, circle, clan, clique, community, coterie, coven, crowd, fold, galère, gang, klatch (also klatsch), lot, network, pack, ring, set
charmed circle, elite, in-group
closed shop
club, college, fellowship, guild (also gild), league, organization, society
camp, faction, sect, side, tribe
mess, squad
brotherhood, fraternity, order, sisterhood, sodality, sorority
commune
alliance, bloc,
