for the rest
Definition
› used when you have already mentioned the important parts of something and you now want to mention the other less important parts: The salary in my new job is great, but (as) for the rest, I'm not impressed.Things remaining
(Definition of for the rest from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
- Augmenting and supplementing
- Available and accessible
- Becoming and making smaller or less
- Becoming bigger
- Big and quite big
- Enlarging and inflating
- Enormous
- Enough
- Extremely small
- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
- Masses and large amounts of things
- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
- Merely and barely
- Plenty and abundant
- Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- Small
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- Some and quite
- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
- Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- Things collected in lines or rings
- Too much and unnecessary
- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
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Synonyms and related words:
- (and) all the rest idiom
- balance noun (MONEY)
- bastion noun
- deposit noun (LAYER)
- dregs noun
- ground noun (COFFEE)
- leftover noun
- loose ends noun
- remains noun
- remnant noun
- residual adjective
- residue noun
- rest noun (OTHER PART)
- ruin noun
- rump noun
- scrapings noun
- sediment noun
- time capsule noun
- vestige noun
- wreckage noun
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