| Main Entry: | businesslike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | efficient, professional |
Synonyms: |
accomplished, careful, concentrated, correct, diligent, direct, disciplined, earnest, effective, enterprising, expeditious, hardworking, industrious, intent, matter-of-fact, methodical, orderly, organized, painstaking, practical, practiced, purposeful, regular, routine, sedulous, serious, skillful, systematic, thorough, well-ordered, workaday |
Antonyms: |
amateur, disorganized, inefficient, unbusinesslike, unprofessional |
| 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, equal to, experienced, expert, familiar with, fitted, good at, good for, handy, masterly, organized, potent, powerful, practiced, productive, proficient, profitable, qualified, ready, saving, shrewd, skilled, skillful, systematic, talented, tough, useful, valuable, virtuous, well-organized |
Antonyms: |
helpless, impotent, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, powerless, unable, weak |
| Main Entry: | impersonal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold, unfriendly |
Synonyms: |
abstract, bureaucratic, businesslike, candid, cold turkey, cold-blooded, colorless, cool, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, emotionless, equal, equitable, fair, formal, impartial, indifferent, inhuman, neutral, nondiscriminatory, objective, poker-faced, remote, straight, strictly business, unbiased, uncolored, unpassioned |
Antonyms: |
friendly, informal, personable, personal, warm |
| Main Entry: | methodical/methodic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | organized, precise |
Synonyms: |
all together, analytical, businesslike, by the book, by the numbers, careful, cut-and-dried, deliberate, disciplined, efficient, exact, fixed, framed, in a groove, logical, methodized, meticulous, neat, ordered, orderly, painstaking, planned, regular, scrupulous, set-up, structured, systematic, tidy, together, well-regulated |
Antonyms: |
confused, disorderly, disorganized, imprecise, unmethodical/unmethodic |
| Main Entry: | ordered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | orderly |
Synonyms: |
all together, arranged, businesslike, controlled, disciplined, in good shape, in order, law-abiding, methodical, neat, organized, peaceable, precise, shipshape, systematic, systematized, tidy, well-behaved, well-organized |
| Main Entry: | orderly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | methodical, organized |
Synonyms: |
alike, all together, arranged, businesslike, careful, clean, conventional, correct, exact, fixed, formal, framed, in apple-pie order, in good shape, in order, in shape, methodic, neat, neat as button, neat as pin, precise, regular, regulated, scientific, set-up, shipshape, slick, spick-and-span, systematic, systematized, thorough, tidy, to rights, together, trim, uncluttered, uniform |
Antonyms: |
complicated, disorderly, disorganized, unmethodical, unsystematic, untidy |
| Main Entry: | practical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | realistic, useful |
Synonyms: |
applied, both feet on the ground, businesslike, commonsensical, constructive, doable, down-to-earth, efficient, empirical, experimental, factual, feasible, functional, handy, hard-boiled, implicit, in action, in operation, matter-of-fact, nuts and bolts, operative, orderly, possible, practicable, pragmatic, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible, serviceable, sober, solid, sound, systematic, unidealistic, unromantic, usable, utile, utilitarian, virtual, workable, workaday, working |
| Notes: | 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: |
impossible, impractical, unfeasible, unrealistic, unserviceable, unworkable, useless, worthless |
| Main Entry: | pragmatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sensible |
Synonyms: |
businesslike, commonsensical, down-to-earth, efficient, hard, hard-boiled, hardheaded, logical, matter-of-fact, practical, realistic, sober, unidealistic, utilitarian |
Antonyms: |
idealistic, unreasonable |
| Main Entry: | realistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sensible, matter-of-fact |
Synonyms: |
astute, businesslike, commonsense, down-to-earth, earthy, hard, hard-boiled, levelheaded, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prudent, rational, real, reasonable, sane, sensible, shrewd, sober, sound, unfantastic, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental, utilitarian |
Antonyms: |
impractical, irrational, unrealistic |
| Main Entry: | serious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | somber, humorless |
Synonyms: |
austere, bound, bound and determined, businesslike, cold sober, contemplative, deadpan, deliberate, determined, downbeat, earnest, funereal, genuine, go for broke, grave, grim, honest, intent, long-faced, meditative, no-nonsense, pensive, pokerfaced, reflective, resolute, resolved, sedate, set, severe, sincere, sober, solemn, staid, steady, stern, thoughtful, unhumorous, unsmiling, weighty |
Antonyms: |
flippant, funny, happy, light |