Great and Main

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Great adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

Usage example: regards global warming as the great issue of the day

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Main is a synonym for great in position topic. In some cases you can use "Main" instead an adjective "Great", when it comes to topics like important, major, chief, leading.

Nearby Words: greatly, greatness

Main adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

Usage example: this is the main point of the study—everything else is secondary

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Great is a synonym for main. Sometimes you can use "Great" instead an adjective "Main".

Nearby Words: mainly, mainline

Both the main character's wife and her lover are shown to be...not great; both the main character and his lover are shown to be just wanting more.

Source: Good Adultery, Bad Adultery
In Holes the main character says that he had a great-great-grandfather who had stolen a pig from a one-legged Gypsy, and she put a curse on him and all his descendants.

Source: Legend Fades to Myth
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh has the main protagonist Annie discover that she is the great-great-granddaughter of the Candyman.

Source: Luke, I Am Your Father

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