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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important |
| Synonyms: | big-time, chief, critical, crucial, exceptional, four-star, front-page, grave, great, heavy, high-power, major-league, playing hard ball, professional, serious, strictly business |
| 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: | objective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fair, impartial |
| Synonyms: | cold, cool, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, equitable, evenhanded, impersonal, judicial, just, like it is, nondiscriminatory, nonpartisan, open-minded*, straight, strictly business, unbiased, uncolored, unemotional, uninvolved, unprejudiced, unprepossessed |
| Antonyms: | partial, prejudiced, subjective, unfair |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | serious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crucial, weighty |
| Synonyms: | arduous, dangerous, deep, difficult, far-reaching, fateful, fell, formidable, grave, grievous, grim, hard, heavy, important, laborious, major, meaning business, meaningful, menacing, momentous, no joke, no laughing matter, of consequence, operose, out for blood, playing hard ball, pressing, severe, significant, smoking, sobering, strenuous, strictly business, threatening, tough, ugly, unamusing, unhumorous, urgent, worrying |
| Antonyms: | light, minor, trivial, unimportant, unserious |
| Main Entry: | heavyweight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big-league |
| Synonyms: | big-time, blue-chip, chief, critical, crucial, exceptional, four-star, front-page, grave, great, heavy, high-power, major, major-league, playing hard ball, professional, serious, strictly business |
| Main Entry: | major-league |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big-league |
| Synonyms: | big-time, blue-chip, chief, critical, crucial, exceptional, four-star, front-page, grave, great, heavy*, high-power, major, notable, playing hard ball, pre-eminent, professional, serious, strictly business |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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