'Nutshell' definitions:
Definition of 'nutshell'
From: WordNet
noun
The shell around the kernel of a nut
Definition of 'Nutshell'
From: GCIDE
- Nutshell \Nut"shell`\, n.
- 1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) A shell of the genus Nucula. [1913 Webster]
- in a nutshell in a summarized and very abbreviated form; -- of statments, descriptions, reports, and other communications; as, to describe the convention in a nutshell.
- To be in a nutshell or To lie in a nutshell,, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Synonyms of 'nutshell'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abridge,
- ace,
- atom,
- bit,
- brief,
- capsule,
- capsulize,
- condense,
- dab,
- digest,
- dole,
- dot,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- dwarf,
- farthing,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- groat,
- hair,
- handful,
- inventory,
- iota,
- jot,
- little,
- little bit,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- ounce,
- outline,
- particle,
- pebble,
- pinch,
- pittance,
- point,
- scruple,
- shorten,
- sketch,
- sketch out,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- speck,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- sum,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- summate,
- synopsize,
- thimbleful,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- whit