main

adj

1. chief, principal, cardinal, prime, primary, capital; paramount, preeminent, premier, supreme, first, foremost, head, headmost, top, topmost; leading, crowning, ruling, overruling, prevailing; uppermost, important, most important, predominant, dominant; great, star, arch, banner, ranking, sovereign; most, utmost, major, maximum, maximal; substantial, sizable, considerable, large, big; powerful, strong, mighty, forceful, puissant; total, full, comprehensive, plenary.

2. essential, requisite, vital, necessary, indispensable, unexpendable; critical, crucial, consequential, pivotal; exigent, instant, pressing, urgent, imperative, high-priority; marked, signal, salient, notable, memorable; outstanding, remarkable, special, especial, particular.

3. sheer, brute, pure, dead, downright, consummate; utmost, utter, total, absolute, complete, out-and-out; direct, plain, bare, stark.

4. wide, vast, immense, broad; extensive, expansive, widespread, spacious, roomy, spread out, outspread.

n

5. conduit, pipe, pipeline, duct, aqueduct, channel, canal; gutter, runnel, sewer, trough, shoot, chute; sluice, lock, floodgate, watergate, weir.

6. majority, bulk, mass, gross; substance, preponderance, meat, marrow; kernel, core, heart, nucleus, key, gist.

7. strength, power, force, might, potency, puissance; energy, vitality, vim, vigor; forcefulness, powerful-n^ss, vehemence, virility, virulence.

8.Literary. sea, ocean, ocean blue, high seas, the open ocean, the deep, the seven seas, the bounding main; the deep blue sea, the vasty deep, the briny deep, the briny, Sl. the drink, the watery waste.

9. in the main

chiefly, principally. See mainly