BOTTOM LINE Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of bottom line

as in essence

the central part or aspect of something under consideration why don't we stop talking around it and get to the bottom line

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adjective

as in logical

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Recent Examples of bottom line

Noun

The bottom line is to protect the exclusive, high-end character of the village. — Luisa Yanez updated September 3, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026 The bottom line Student loans can help make higher education more accessible, but borrowing is only one part of paying for college. — Miranda Marquit, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026

Adjective

This comes after shares of Target spiked last Wednesday after the retailer reported second-quarter top- and bottom-line gains and raised its outlook for the year. — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026 Top- and bottom-line beats, including its first quarter of positive earnings-per-share (EPS) growth since 2023. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bottom line

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottom line

Noun

The film’s depiction of the optimistic essence of community theater shines through in a way that feels good to be true.

— Cortlyn Kelly, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2026
Our ideas of surrogacy are based on a patriarchal notion that the essence of the baby is in the seed.

— Torie Bosch, STAT, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of essence

Adjective

Large language models train on amalgamated content from millions of writers to predict the next logical word.

— Marissa Brassfield, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
The decision to launch a separate block of programming aimed at those viewers, filled with raunchy cartoons that actively subverted nostalgia and violent anime that couldn’t be shown during daytime hours, was logical.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of logical

Noun

Those children need to know their roots, need to know that there is always a place where they are loved and welcomed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Interventions can include removing trees and vegetation or constructing barriers to isolate their roots from the house’s foundations and, at the more extreme and expensive end, underpinning the house by pumping concrete beneath the foundations.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of root

Noun

Following a short outpatient procedure, the device sits under his skin on his chest, similar to a heart pacemaker.

— Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2026
Our hearts continue to be with the families and loved ones of those who were killed, and with the entire Miami-Dade community enduring an unimaginable time.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of heart

Adjective

The novel also takes an unsentimental look at Jamaica, a country that, let the Sandals ads tell it, is mostly pristine beaches, jerk chicken, and Bob Marley’s One Love on a perpetual loop.

— Tembe Denton-Hurst, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
The affect of these books—brisk, unsentimental, exacting—serves their diagnosis.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of unsentimental

Noun

Yarbo later acknowledged the core technical findings and began rolling out fixes.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
But the core four aren’t the only transplants from Woodsboro, as Ghostface soon rears its ugly head, directly targeting them and whomever else is caught up in their orbit.

— Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of core

Adjective

At the press conference, a journalist noted that his filmography is notable for its unromantic view of animal life.

— Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
For 30 minutes, the hunter watched the whitetails play a cat-and-mouse game as the buck tried to stay close to the unromantic does.

— Jeff Murray, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of unromantic

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