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| Main Entry: | businesslike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | efficient, professional |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, careful, concentrated, correct, diligent, direct, earnest, effective, enterprising, expeditious, hardworking, industrious, intent, matter-of-fact, methodical, orderly, organized, painstaking, practical, practiced, purposeful, regular, routine, sedulous, serious, skillful, systematic, thorough, disciplined, well-ordered, workaday |
| Antonyms: | amateur, disorganized, inefficient, unprofessional, unbusinesslike |
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| Main Entry: | efficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adept, effective |
| Synonyms: | able, accomplished, active, adapted, adequate, apt, businesslike, capable, clever, competent, conducive, decisive, deft, dynamic, economic, economical, effectual, efficacious, energetic, experienced, expert, fitted, handy, masterly, organized, potent, powerful, practiced, productive, proficient, profitable, qualified, ready, saving, shrewd, skilled, skillful, systematic, talented, tough, useful, valuable, virtuous, equal to, familiar with, good at, good for, well-organized |
| Antonyms: | helpless, impotent, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, powerless, unable, weak |
| Main Entry: | impersonal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold, unfriendly |
| Synonyms: | abstract, businesslike, candid, cold turkey*, cold-blooded*, colorless, cool, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, emotionless, equal, equitable, fair, formal, impartial, indifferent, inhuman, neutral, objective, remote, straight, unbiased, bureaucratic, nondiscriminatory, poker-faced*, strictly business, uncolored, unpassioned |
| Antonyms: | friendly, informal, personable, personal, warm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | methodical/methodic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | organized, precise |
| Synonyms: | analytical, businesslike, by the numbers, careful, cut-and-dried*, deliberate, efficient, exact, fixed, framed, logical, meticulous, neat, ordered, orderly, painstaking, planned, regular, scrupulous, systematic, tidy, together, all together, by the book, disciplined, in a groove, methodized, set-up, structured, well-regulated |
| Antonyms: | confused, disorderly, disorganized, imprecise, unmethodical/unmethodic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ordered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | orderly |
| Synonyms: | businesslike, methodical, neat, organized, peaceable, precise, shipshape*, systematic, tidy, well-behaved, all together, arranged, controlled, disciplined, in good shape, in order, law-abiding, systematized, well-organized |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pragmatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sensible |
| Synonyms: | businesslike, down-to-earth, efficient, hard, hard-boiled*, hardheaded*, logical, matter-of-fact, practical, realistic, sober, utilitarian, commonsensical, unidealistic |
| Notes: | empirical describes results determined by experiment and observed behavior or facts; theoretical describes results that are based on guesswork or hypothesis - and pragmatic is contrasted with theoretical on the grounds that the former proceeds from what is demonstrably practical, the latter from conjecture practical applies when what is in question is the conduct of affairs, whereas pragmatic applies when the question is the planning with respect to these affairs; practical is anything that can be done and is worth doing, while practicable is anything that can be done - worthwhile or not |
| Antonyms: | idealistic, unreasonable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shipshape |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tidy |
| Synonyms: | businesslike, chipper, clean, neat, ordered, orderly, spick-and-span*, trim, well-groomed, in good shape, in tip-top condition, uncluttered, well-kept |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | systematic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | orderly |
| Synonyms: | analytical, businesslike, complete, efficient, logical, methodical, ordered, organized, out-and-out*, precise, regular, standardized, thoroughgoing, arranged, methodic, systematized, well-ordered |
| Antonyms: | chaotic, confused, disorderly, mixed up, unmethodical, unsystematic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | methodical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | organized |
| Synonyms: | analytical, businesslike, careful, deliberate, efficient, exact, fixed, framed, logical, meticulous, neat, ordered, orderly, painstaking, planned, precise, regular, scrupulous, set up, systematic, tidy, together, all together, disciplined, grooved, methodic, methodized, structured, well-regulated |
| Antonyms: | chaotic, disorganized |
| Main Entry: | orderly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | methodical, organized |
| Synonyms: | alike, businesslike, careful, clean, conventional, correct, exact, fixed, formal, framed, neat, precise, regular, regulated, scientific, shipshape*, slick, spick-and-span*, systematic, thorough, tidy, together, trim, uniform, all together, arranged, in apple-pie order, in good shape, in order, in shape, methodic, neat as button, neat as pin, set-up, systematized, to rights, uncluttered |
| Antonyms: | complicated, disorderly, disorganized, untidy, unmethodical, unsystematic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | practical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | realistic, useful |
| Synonyms: | applied, businesslike, constructive, down-to-earth, efficient, empirical, experimental, factual, feasible, functional, handy, hard-boiled*, implicit, matter-of-fact*, nuts and bolts*, operative, orderly, possible, practicable, pragmatic, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible, serviceable, sober, solid, sound, systematic, usable, utilitarian, virtual, workable, working, both feet on the ground, commonsensical, doable, in action, in operation, unidealistic, unromantic, utile, workaday |
| Antonyms: | impossible, impractical, unfeasible, unrealistic, useless, worthless, unserviceable, unworkable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | realistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sensible, matter-of-fact |
| Synonyms: | astute, businesslike, down-to-earth, earthy, hard, hard-boiled*, levelheaded, practical, pragmatic, prudent, rational, real, reasonable, sane, sensible, shrewd, sober, sound, utilitarian, commonsense, pragmatical, unfantastic, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental |
| Antonyms: | impractical, irrational, unrealistic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | serious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | somber, humorless |
| Synonyms: | austere, bound, bound and determined, businesslike, contemplative, deadpan*, deliberate, determined, downbeat*, earnest, funereal, genuine, grave, grim, honest, intent, meditative, no-nonsense*, pensive, reflective, resolute, sedate, set, severe, sincere, sober, solemn, staid, steady, stern, thoughtful, weighty, cold sober, go for broke, long-faced, pokerfaced, resolved, unhumorous, unsmiling |
| Antonyms: | flippant, funny, happy, light |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tidy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean, neat |
| Synonyms: | apple-pie order*, businesslike, chipper*, cleanly, methodical, ordered, orderly, shipshape*, sleek, snug, spick-and-span*, spruce, systematic, trim, well-groomed, in good shape, neat as a pin, to rights, uncluttered, well-kept, well-ordered |
| Antonyms: | chaotic, dirty, disordered, disorganized, messy, sloppy, slovenly, unclean, untidy, littered |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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acting, light, Rabelaisian, activable, active, afoot, agile, agoing, alert, alive, alive and frisking, animated, assiduous, astir, at call, at work, brisk, brisk as a bee, brisk as a lark, broad awake, businesslike, bustling, busy, busy as a bee, busy as a hen with one chicken, diligent, do, doing, enterprising, eventful, expeditious, extradictionary, fast, forward, frisky, full of business, fussy, in action, in earnest, in full swing, in harness, in operation, indefatigable, industrious, intent, meddlesome, meddling, motatorious, never tired, nimble, nimble as a squirrel, notable, nutational, occupied, officious, on duty, on the alert, on the anvil, overofficious, painstaking, pantopragmatic, plodding, pottering, pushing, quick, quick as a lamplighter, resolute, restless, restless as a hyena, sedulous, sharp, smart, spirited, sprack, spry, stirring, strenuous, tripping, undertaking, unsleeping, unwearied, up and doing, vivacious, wide awake, work a day, working, zealous
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| Main Entry: | conduct |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | regularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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arranged, businesslike, correct, in apple, in order, in trim, methodical, neat, orderly, regular, serial, shipshape, symmetrical, systematic, tidy, tosh, unconfused, uniform, well
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| Main Entry: | skill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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gain, a good hand at, able, accomplished, adroit, affabrous, alive to, ambidextral, ambidextrous, apt, artistic, at home in, businesslike, capable, clever, competent, conversant, crack, cunning, cut out for, dab, daedalian, dedal, deft, dexterous, discreet, efficient, endowed, experienced, expert, fabrile, felicitous, fine, fit for, fitted, fitted for, gifted, good at, habile, hackneyed, hand, in practice, in proper cue, ingenious, initiated, inventive, master of, masterful, masterly, neat, practiced, prepared, primed, proficient, qualified, quick, ready, scientific, sharp, shipshape, shrewd, skilled, skillful, smart, statesmanlike, surefooted, talented, technical, thoroughbred, trained, up in, up to, up to snuff, up to the mark, well up in, workmanlike
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