pith

Speech parts

1. pith - Noun

2. pith - Adjective

3. pith - Verb

Meaning

The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.

The spongy interior substance of a feather.

The spinal cord; the marrow.

Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.

To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

nub core heart meat substance essence kernel marrow gist inwardness heart and soul nitty-gritty center centre quintessence
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Antonyms

side outside border edge margin exterior
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Hypernyms

content remove get rid of cognitive content mental object plant tissue

Hyponyms

quintessence stuff hypostasis quiddity bare bones haecceity

Phrases with the word

argument without pith pith helmets

Anagrams

hipt phit

Examples

As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material. Ramakrishna

Writer: What, above all, I'm primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, that's it, really. I'm taking the pith out of reality. Alan Bennett

He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation. Lawrence Durrell

The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane. Joseph Addison

Pith is good in all Playes. Scottish Proverb

the gist of the prosecutor's argument Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

pitfall and gin pitfalling pitful pith and substance pith hat pith helmet