Mass
Mass noun - The main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts.
Usage example: when taking pictures, focus your attention on the mass of the main subject
Root
Root noun - A point or place at which something is invented or provided.
How words are described
| full | full mass | full root |
| complete | complete mass | complete root |
| solid | solid mass | solid root |
| single | single mass | single root |
| Other adjectives: small, actual, real, large, enormous, giant, red. | ||
Common collocations
| forces | mass forces | root forces |
Both words in one sentence
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An Arm and a Leg: A Bolt of Divine Retribution from Zeus blasts Gaia's left hand almost clean off, leaving it hanging by a mass of root-like tendons.
Source: Video Game / God of War III -
Pando is a clonal tree colony in Utah with one root system, six thousand metric tons of mass, forty-seven thousand trunks and possibly one million years to its name.
Source: World Tree -
To some, I am a Well-Intentioned Extremist supremacist mass-murdering terrorist demagogue, with occasional outright genocidal ambitions; alternately, some people still root for the Brotherhood despite their muddled blood, weep for my cause, or have contempt for my position in life.
Source: Self Demonstrating / Magneto
Cite this Source
Root and Mass. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/mass/root
Mass & Root. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/mass/root>.
Root or Mass. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/mass/root.
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