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Antonyms for main idea

Grammar : Noun

Definition of main idea

As in point : noun meaning, essence
As in bottom line : noun indispensable content
As in core : noun center, gist
As in essence : noun heart, significance

Example sentences :

The main idea in all courses was to do what you had to but no more.
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

All through this their main idea has been not to trouble you.
Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Inevitably it turns to this sort of violence when the uneducated have seized on its main idea.
Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall

Show how the opening paragraph introduces the main idea of the story.
Extract from : « Americans All » by Various

The main idea of the story, however, is curiously distorted.
Extract from : « Italian Popular Tales » by Thomas Frederick Crane

His changes had merely muddied the plot and cheapened her main idea.
Extract from : « Ruth Fielding Down East » by Alice B. Emerson

The main idea of confession, I take it, is gettin' at the facts.
Extract from : « On the Frontier » by Bret Harte

Deliverance from his enemies is the psalmist's main idea in the word here.
Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 1 » by A. Maclaren

The main idea of the chapter is borrowed from Montaigne, Essais, l. iii.
Extract from : « The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal » by Blaise Pascal

In this lengthy working-out every part of the main idea is fully developed.
Extract from : « Life Of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Otto Jahn

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