nugget | Definition of nugget

Synonyms and Antonyms of nugget

1 a small piece or quantity of food

nuggets of beef in the chow mein

fried chicken nuggets

Synonyms of nugget

bite, morsel, mouthful, nibble, taste, tidbit (also titbit)

Words Related to nugget

collop, medallion, noisette

appetizer, canapé, hors d'oeuvre

bit, chew, crumb, dab, dribble, driblet, fleck, hint, mote, nubbin, particle, pinch, scrap, scruple, shred, smidgen (also smidgeon), snip, snippet, speck, spot, sprinkling, suspicion, tittle, touch, trace

gulp, swallow, swig

2 a small uneven mass

a nugget of gold

Synonyms of nugget

blob, chunk, clod, clot, clump, dollop, glob, gob, gobbet, hunk, knob, lump, nub, nubble, wad

Words Related to nugget

bead, drop, globule

block, body, bulk

particle, piece, portion

bit, chip, crumb, granule, morsel, nubbin, patch, scrap

3 a very small piece

a seemingly inconsequential nugget of information that proved to be the key to cracking the case

Synonyms of nugget

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

Words Related to nugget

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 nugget

chunk, gob, hunk, lump, slab

abundance, barrel, bucket, bushel, deal, heaps, loads, mass, mountain, peck, pile,