Gist - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|dʒɪst|
Brit.
|dʒɪst|
noun
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work (syn: burden, core, effect, essence)
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (syn: center, centre, core, essence, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, substance, sum)
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (syn: center, centre, core, essence, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, substance, sum)
the gist of the prosecutor's argument
Extra examples
...didn't catch every word between them, but heard enough to get the gist of the conversation...
Dorothea told him that she had seen Lydgate, and recited the gist of her conversation with him about the Hospital.
...you can skip over the rhetorical passages and still get the gist of the essay...
The gist of his argument is that full employment is impossible.
Don't worry about all the details as long as you get the gist (=understand the main meaning) of it.
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