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nucleus

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of nucleus

1 a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest

a college campus that was a nucleus of opposition to the war

Synonyms of nucleus

axis, base, capital, center, central, core, cynosure, epicenter, eye, focus, ground zero, heart, hub, locus, mecca, navel, nerve center, nexus, omphalos, seat

Words Related to nucleus

happy hunting ground, hive, hotbed, hot spot, playground, playland

kernel, nub, pith

essence, quintessence, soul

attraction, lodestone (also loadstone), magnet, polestar

Phrases Synonymous with nucleus

2 the central part or aspect of something under consideration

the nucleus of the movement's methodology has always been passive resistance

Synonyms of nucleus

bottom line, bull's-eye, centerpiece, core, crux, essence, gist, heart, kernel, keynote, meat, meat and potatoes, net, nub, nubbin, pith, pivot, point, root, sum

Words Related to nucleus

course, direction, drift, tenor

body, content, substance

hypothesis, proposition, purport, subject, theme, thesis

Phrases Synonymous with nucleus

sum and substance, the long and short (or the long and the short)

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