All crux synonyms
crux
C c noun crux
- core — The core of a fruit is the central part of it. It contains seeds or pips.
- bottom line — The bottom line in a decision or situation is the most important factor that you have to consider.
- nub — the point, gist, or heart of something.
- gist — the main or essential part of a matter: What was the gist of his speech?
- body — Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
- kernel — the softer, usually edible part contained in the shell of a nut or the stone of a fruit.
- substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- meat — the flesh of animals as used for food.
- purport — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- nitty-gritty — the essential substance or details of a matter; basics; crux: Let's skip the chitchat and get down to the nitty-gritty.
- heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- pith — Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
- matter — a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
- root — Elihu [el-uh-hyoo] /ˈɛl əˌhyu/ (Show IPA), 1845–1937, U.S. lawyer and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1912.
- bottom — The bottom of something is the lowest or deepest part of it.