nubbin | Definition of nubbin

Synonyms and Antonyms of nubbin

1 a very small piece

had only a nubbin of crayon left

Synonyms of nubbin

atom, bit, crumb, dribble, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nugget, particle, patch, scrap, scruple, snip, snippet, speck, tittle

Words Related to nubbin

ace, dab, dash, driblet, drop, fraction, haet [chiefly Scottish], halfpenny, ha'penny, iota, jot, kenning [chiefly Scottish], lick, minim, mite, modicum, nutshell, ounce, pinch, shred, smatter, smidgen (also smidgeon), spot, strain, streak, suspicion, taste, touch, trace, whisper, whit

bite, mouthful, nibble, tidbit (also titbit)

fragment, part, portion, section

chip, flake, shard, shiver, sliver, splinter

clipping, paring, shaving

Near Antonyms of nubbin

chunk, gob, hunk, lump, slab

abundance, barrel, bucket, bushel, deal, heaps, loads, mass, mountain, peck, pile, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, scads, stack, volume, wad, wealth

2 the central part or aspect of something under consideration

this nubbin of the intelligence report is the prediction that the country's government will soon fall

Synonyms of nubbin

bottom line, bull's-eye, centerpiece, core, crux, essence, gist, heart, kernel, keynote, meat, meat and potatoes, net, nub, nucleus, pith, pivot, point, root, sum

Words Related to nubbin

course, direction, drift, tenor

body, content, substance

hypothesis, proposition, purport, subject, theme, thesis

Phrases Synonymous with nubbin

sum and substance, the long and short (or the long and the short)