main point

Synonyms

point feature nub focus meat sum emphasis thrust kernel thread crux pith focal point bottom line nitty-gritty

Examples

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. George Bernard Shaw

Actually, it doesn't matter – Krishna or Christ – the name is the same. The main point is to follow the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures that recommend chanting the name of God in this age. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I live, which is the main point. Heinrich Heine

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning. Miguel de Cervantes

If we try to keep a sense of balance, the exposures of the past several months are analogous to the discovery that the directors of Murder, Inc. were also cheating on their income tax. Reprehensible, to be sure, but hardly the main point. Noam Chomsky

However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful. Ronald Fisher

Words in the phrase

main point

Close letter words and terms

main planet main plate main player main points main portion main pot