Antonyms for main
meɪn, maɪnmain

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1. main

   Antonyms:
   portion, section, minority, branch, limb, tributary, member, subordinate, inferior

   Synonyms:
   bulk, majority, body, principal, trunk, chief, leading, most important, first

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1. • Body Of Water
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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. main, brinynoun

   any very large body of (salt) water

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, mild

   Synonyms:
   briny

2. mainadjective

   a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage

   Antonyms:
   mild, unimportant

   Synonyms:
   briny

3. chief(a), main(a), primary(a), principal(a), master(a)adjective

   most important element

   "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch"

   Antonyms:
   mild, unimportant

4. independent, main(a)adjective

   (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

   "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, mild

5. main(a)adjective

   of force; of the greatest possible intensity

   "by main strength"

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, mild

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1. mainadjective

   Synonyms:
   principal, leading, chief, capital, cardinal, paramount, requisite, necessary, sheer, pure

2. mainnoun

   Synonyms:
   ocean, high sea, gross, bulk, majority, strength, power, might, force

How to use main in a sentence?

1. Jacob Lassin:

   It would literally be destroying the main seat of Russian Orthodoxy according to his own rhetoric.

2. Icie Farnsworth:

   I don’t support her because her credibility’s been in question. That’s the main issue. I don’t trust her.

3. Tanya Saracho:

   [ The main characters ] are not the children of immigrants, they're the grandchildren of immigrants, and that's important too, because that's American. That's being American.

4. Anton Siluanov:

   We're losing around $40 billion a year because of geopolitical sanctions, and about $90 billion to $100 billion from oil prices falling by 30 percent, the main issue that affects the budget and economy and financial system, this is the price of oil and the fall in monetary flows from the sale of energy resources.

5. Raj Agrawal:

   It’s going to be good for the country to just have a new administration in place, just to bring some stability to the overall environment, I think that’s the main benefit we’re getting here, and just to bring some professionalism to the things that need to be done, including getting rid of the virus, we’re hopeful that some of the policies and things that they’ve talked about come into play because those things may be beneficial to Western Union.

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