Crossword-Solution: GIST 4 letters, 154 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Gist	n.	A resting place.
Gist	n.	The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
GIST	anagram	GITS, GTIS, STIG, TIGS

We have 154 clues for the answer “GIST”

Clue	Answers
"Get the ___?" ("Understand?")	1 answer
"I get the ___" ("That generally makes sense")	1 answer
Basic picture	1 answer
CHIEF part	1 answer
Central part of an argument	1 answer
Central significance	1 answer
CliffsNotes content	1 answer
Core, or meat	1 answer
Crux or core	1 answer
Essence ... and, read differently, a hint to six puzzle answers	1 answer
Essence of a matter.	1 answer
General picture	1 answer
Good thing to get from a 101 class	1 answer
Good thing to get from a lecture	1 answer
Kernel of a concept	1 answer
Long and short of it	1 answer
Main element	1 answer
Main meaning	1 answer
Main point of a question.	1 answer
Main point of an idea	1 answer
Main takeaway	1 answer
Meat, of sorts	1 answer
Meat, so to speak	1 answer
Most vital part of some idea	1 answer
Pith of the matter.	1 answer
Pith, essence	1 answer
Point at the heart	1 answer
Point to "get"	1 answer
Purposeful drift	1 answer
Substance of a matter.	1 answer
The essence of a matter.	1 answer
The main point.	1 answer
The very essence	1 answer
What it all means	1 answer
What some things may be boiled down to	1 answer
You'll get it from CliffsNotes	1 answer
meaning General address	1 answer
part Essential	1 answer
real ground	1 answer
substance or main point of a matter	1 answer
Essence (of idea?)	1 answer
Pith of a matter.	2 answers
Most important point	2 answers
Very heart	2 answers
Basic concept	2 answers
Central meaning	2 answers
Key element	2 answers
Main message	2 answers
Essential meaning	3 answers
general meaning	3 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RAETE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with GIST (5)

And when Clayton had entered, and closed the door behind him: “Well?” “I have come to report the gist of a conversation I heard to-day, because I feel that, while there may be nothing to it, it is as well that you be forearmed.

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

When von Horn returned to the court of mystery, he narrated to Professor Maxon the gist of his conversation with Virginia, wishing to forestall anything which the girl might say to her father that would give him an impression that von Horn had been talking more than he should.

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994

The gist of it was, I might not land the captives at Monrovia, but might land them at Grand Bassa, about a hundred and fifty miles to the eastward; that Colonel Royal would accompany me with orders to the governor there to receive them.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008

See Gist.] (Law) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; Ð used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

She could write better than any of ’em if she chose, and I don’t blame her for wanting clever fellows about; all I say is: ‘Don’t let me see ’em eat!’” The gist of this strange communication gave Lily a distinct thrill of pleasure.

The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with GIST (3)

Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here's the gist of almost every sermon I ever heard Joshua give. You should be nice to people, even creeps. And if you: a) believed that Joshua was the Son of God (and) b) he had come to save you from sin (and) c) acknowledged the Holy Spirit within you (became as a little child, he would say) (and…

Christopher Moore Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.

Fernando Pessoa The Book of Disquiet

I think that sitting there talking to Dan was a thing that had a great impression on my life. I know that being an idiot and all, I ain't supposed to have no philosophy of my own, but maybe it's just because nobody never too the time to talk to me about it. It was Dan's philosophy that everything that happen to us, or for that matter, to anything everywhere, is controlled by natural laws that govern the universe. His views were extremely complicated, but the gist of what he s…

Winston Groom Forrest Gump

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 254 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).