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no-nonsense
adjective as in intolerant
adjective as in sedate
adjective as in serious
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in sincere
Weak matches
- 24-carat
- aboveboard
- actual
- artless
- bona fide
- dead-level
- dear
- devout
- faithful
- frank
- guileless
- honest-to-God
- honest-to-goodness
- like it is
- meant
- natural
- no-fooling
- on the level
- on the line
- on the up and up
- open
- plain
- pretensionless
- regular
- righteous
- saintly
- square
- sure-enough
- true-blue
- unaffected
- undesigning
- undissembled
- unfeigned
- unpretentious
- up-front
- wholehearted
adjective as in sober
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in solemn
adjective as in somber
adjective as in staid
adjective as in strict
adjective as in weighty
adjective as in bluff
adjective as in hard-nosed
adjective as in no-nonsense
adjective as in sobersided
Weak matches
- austere
- bound
- bound and determined
- businesslike
- cold sober
- contemplative
- deadpan
- deliberate
- determined
- downbeat
- earnest
- funereal
- genuine
- go for broke
- grave
- grim
- honest
- in earnest
- intent
- long-faced
- meditative
- pensive
- pokerfaced
- reflective
- resolute
- resolved
- sedate
- set
- severe
- sincere
- sober
- solemn
- staid
- steady
- stern
- thoughtful
- unhumorous
- unsmiling
- weighty
adjective as in down-to-earth
adjective as in earnest
adjective as in grave
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Example Sentences
In those early days, no-nonsense Anna was a full partner in the business.
Wiry and more grey man than charismatic, Votel is known for his no-nonsense, rather closed demeanor.
In addition to her stellar body of work, she will always be remembered for being the no-nonsense half of Bogie and Bacall.
At the final site meeting before construction began, Cain was in a no-nonsense mood.
A good-looking woman, she maintained a no-nonsense approach on her pioneering digs in south-east Anatolia.
They mostly had a no-nonsense look about them, as if they were not going to be satisfied with more oratory.
With their compact bodies and no-nonsense mannerisms they were recognizably Pyrran.
"I've been looking around," Malone said in what he hoped was a grim, no-nonsense tone.
He won't be capable of taking a no-nonsense, dogmatic, black-and-white stand.
He was as much a "no-nonsense" fellow, in his way, as a magistrate, or a minister.'
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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to no-nonsense, such as: businesslike, stern, demanding, direct, efficient, and grave.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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