| 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: | methodical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | organized |
Synonyms: |
all together, analytical, businesslike, careful, deliberate, disciplined, efficient, exact, fixed, framed, grooved, logical, methodic, methodized, meticulous, neat, ordered, orderly, painstaking, planned, precise, regular, scrupulous, set up, structured, systematic, tidy, together, well-regulated |
Antonyms: |
chaotic, disorganized |
| Main Entry: | accurate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | precise |
Synonyms: |
authentic, careful, close, concrete, correct, defined, definite, deft, detailed, discriminating, discriminative, distinct, exact, explicit, factual, faithful, genuine, judicious, just, literal, matter-of-fact, methodical, meticulous, on the button, on the money, on the nose, particular, proper, punctilious, punctual, regular, right, rigid, rigorous, scientific, scrupulous, severe, sharp, skillful, solid, specific, strict, systematic, true, ultraprecise, unerring, unmistakable, veracious |
Antonyms: |
careless, faulty, inaccurate, lax, vague |
| 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: | economical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative with resources; careful |
Synonyms: |
avaricious, canny, chary, circumspect, close, closefisted, cost-effective, curmudgeonly, efficient, frugal, meager, mean, methodical, miserly, money-saving, niggardly, on the rims, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, practical, provident, prudent, prudential, saving, scrimping, skimping, spare, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, time-saving, unwasteful, watchful, work-saving |
| Notes: | economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources' |
Antonyms: |
careless, expensive, uncareful, uneconomical, wasteful |
| Main Entry: | equable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | steady, calm |
Synonyms: |
agreeable, composed, consistent, constant, easy-going, even, even-tempered, imperturbable, level-headed, methodical, orderly, placid, regular, serene, smooth, stabile, stable, systematic, temperate, tranquil, unchanging, unexcitable, unflappable, unfluctuating, uniform, unruffled, unvarying |
Antonyms: |
changeable, excitable, fluctuating, irregular, spasmodic, vacillating, variable, varying, wavering |
| Main Entry: | exact |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accurate, precise |
Synonyms: |
bull's-eye, careful, clear, clear-cut, correct, dead on, definite, distinct, downright, explicit, express, faithful, faultless, identical, literal, methodical, nailed down, nice, on target, on the button, on the money, on the numbers, orderly, particular, perfect, right, right on, rigorous, sharp, specific, true, unequivocal, unerring, veracious, verbal, verbatim |
Antonyms: |
approximate, imprecise, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, inexact |
| Main Entry: | formal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | established, orderly |
Synonyms: |
academic, approved, ceremonial, ceremonialistic, ceremonious, confirmed, conventional, decorous, directed, explicit, express, fixed, formalistic, lawful, legal, methodical, official, precise, prescribed, pro forma, proper, punctilious, regular, rigid, ritual, ritualistic, set, solemn, stately, stereotyped, stereotypical, strict, systematic |
Antonyms: |
disorderly, informal, relaxed |
| Main Entry: | habitual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
Synonyms: |
accepted, accustomed, addicted, addicting, automatic, chronic, common, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, customary, cyclic, disciplined, familiar, fixed, frequent, hardened, ingrained, inveterate, iterated, iterative, mechanical, methodical, natural, normal, ordinary, perfunctory, permanent, perpetual, persistent, practiced, recurrent, regular, reiterative, repeated, repetitious, rooted, routine, seasoned, set, standard, steady, systematic, traditional, wonted |
Antonyms: |
infrequent, inhabitual, intermittent, occasional, rare, seldom, uncommon, unestablished, unusual |
| Main Entry: | literal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | word for word; exact, real |
Synonyms: |
accurate, actual, apparent, authentic, bona fide, close, critical, faithful, genuine, gospel, methodical, natural, not figurative, ordinary, plain, scrupulous, simple, strict, to the letter, true, undeviating, unerring, unexaggerated, unvarnished, usual, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veritable, written |
Antonyms: |
exaggerated, figurative, imaginative, loose |