Nearby Words
mean business
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mean business
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mean what one says |
| Synonyms: | be in earnest, be resolute, stick at nothing |
| Main Entry: | earnest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | serious; very important |
| Synonyms: | close, constant, determined, firm, fixed, for real, grave, intent, mean business, meaningful, no-fooling, no-nonsense, playing hard ball, resolute, resolved, sedate, sincere, sober, solemn, somber, stable, staid, steady, thoughtful, weighty |
| Antonyms: | flippant, insincere, thoughtless, trivial, unimportant, unserious |
| Main Entry: | inexorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, pitiless |
| Synonyms: | adamant, adamantine, bound, bound and determined, compulsory, dead set on, dogged, hard, harsh, hell bent on, immobile, immovable, implacable, ineluctable, inescapable, inflexible, ironclad, like death and taxes, locked in, mean business, merciless, necessary, no going back, obdurate, obstinate, relentless, remorseless, resolute, rigid, set in stone, severe, single-minded, stubborn, unappeasable, unbending, uncompromising, unmovable, unrelenting, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | flexible, lenient, merciful, remorseful, yielding |
| Main Entry: | purposeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resolved to do something |
| Synonyms: | be out for blood, bent, bound, calculated, dead set on, decided, deliberate, determined, firm, fixed, intense, intent, mean business, obstinate, persistent, playing hard ball, positive, purposive, resolute, settled, single-minded, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, strong-willed, stubborn, telelogical, tenacious, undeviating, unfaltering, unwavering |
| Antonyms: | aimless, thoughtless, undetermined, unplanned, wanton |
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