Backbone Synonyms and Antonyms

băkbōn
Line of bones in the back supporting the body
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. spine
  2. spinal-column
  3. vertebrae
  4. chine
Determination
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. grit
  2. guts
  3. spinal-column
  4. fortitude
  5. spine
  6. rachis
  7. firmness
  8. character
  9. chine
  10. courage
  11. foundation
  12. heart
  13. mainstay
  14. nerve
  15. vertebral-column
  16. resolution
  17. spirit
  18. spunk
  19. moxie
  20. stamina
  21. support
  22. tenacity
  23. will
  24. back
  25. sand
  26. gumption
Antonyms:
  1. spinelessness
  2. weakness
  3. powerlessness
  4. ineptness
A central cohesive source of support and stability
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. anchor
  2. mainstay
  3. keystone
  4. linchpin
  5. lynchpin

Words Related to Backbone

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. determination
  2. back-bone
  3. bedrock

Backbone Sentence Examples

  • He was the backbone for all of us.  I think we all feel his absence.

  • His fingers were gently massaging the muscles on either side of her backbone - warm and relaxing.

  • The Southern Alps, the backbone of the South Island, rest on a foundation of coarse gneisses and schists, that are quite unrepresented in the North Island.

  • In the tectonic structure of Asia the Kuen-lun forms, as it were, the backbone of the continent.

  • They form the backbone of the island, and crop out on the surface at intervals along the mountain chain which runs parallel to the west coast.

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