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point has 46 distinct synonyms spread across 24 of its 40 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a geometric element that has position but no extension
“a point is defined by its coordinates”
the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
“she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street”
a brief version of the essential meaning of something
“get to the point”
an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
“several of the details are similar”
the object of an activity
“what is the point of discussing it?”
a V shape
“the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points”
the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
“he scored 20 points in the first half”
a promontory extending out into a large body of water
“they sailed south around the point”
a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
“he noticed an item in the New York Times”
a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
an outstanding characteristic
“his acting was one of the high points of the movie”
any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
“he checked the point on his compass”
a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
“in England they call a period a stop”
the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
“he knows my bad points as well as my good points”
the gun muzzle's direction
“he held me up at the point of a gun”
a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for point come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
be positionable in a specified manner
“The gun points with ease”
indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
“the dog pointed the dead duck”