Synonyms and Antonyms of meat
1
animal and especially mammal tissue used as food
- we need to go shopping; there's only enough meat in the freezer for one more dinner
2
substances intended to be eaten
- offered his guests meat and drink
bread, chow, chuck [chiefly West], comestibles, eatables, eats, edibles, fare, food, foodstuffs, grub, provender, provisions, table, tucker [chiefly Australian], viands, victuals, vittles
commissary, rations, supplies
aliment, nutriment
diet, nourishment, nurture, sustenance
mess, pap
ensilage, feed, fodder, forage, silage, slop, swill
feast, meal, refreshments, regale, repast, spread
board
dish, plate, platter, serving
finger food, natural food
3
the central part or aspect of something under consideration
- he dances all around it without ever addressing the meat of the issue
bottom line, bull's-eye, centerpiece, core, crux, essence, gist, heart, kernel, keynote, meat and potatoes, net, nub, nubbin, nucleus, pith, pivot, point, root, sum
course, direction, drift, tenor
body, content, substance
hypothesis, proposition, purport, subject, theme, thesis
