ingredient

Speech parts

1. ingredient - Noun

2. ingredient - Adjective

Meaning

That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent.

Entering as, or forming, an ingredient or component part.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

element factor component constituent fixings point particular fact material matter member unit division feature section

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Antonyms

preparation sketch emulsion admixture amalgam recapitulation

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Hypernyms

division section element component constituent part

Hyponyms

white point base date rice olive

Related terms

ingress

Phrases with the word

eggnog ingredient main ingredient haggis ingredient culinary ingredient cooking ingredient single ingredient

Examples

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Theodore Roosevelt

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. Charles Baudelaire

The essential ingredient of politics is timing. Pierre Trudeau

The main ingredient of stardom, is the rest of the team. John Wooden

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. Rudolf Carnap

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for. Sophia Loren

Close letter words and terms

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