in a groove

ADJECTIVE

methodic

Synonyms

WEAK

all together analytical businesslike by the book by the numbers careful cut-and-dried deliberate disciplined efficient exact fixed framed logical methodized meticulous neat ordered orderly painstaking planned regular scrupulous set-up structured systematic systematical tidy together well-regulated

ADJECTIVE

methodical/methodic

Synonyms

WEAK

Antonyms

WEAK

confused disorderly disorganized imprecise unmethodical/unmethodic

ADJECTIVE

systematical

Synonyms

WEAK

all together analytical businesslike by the book by the numbers careful cut-and-dried deliberate disciplined efficient exact fixed framed logical methodic methodized meticulous neat ordered orderly painstaking planned regular scrupulous set-up structured systematic tidy together well-regulated

ADVERB

on a roll

Synonyms

WEAK

cooking hot hot-handed in a zone on fire on one's game smoking

Example Sentences

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When you’re in a groove, the last thing you want to see is: “You’ve hit your limit.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Two innings later, Díaz came back to the plate with Snell seemingly in a groove, having retired seven of the next eight batters, including five on strikeouts.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2025

“Some seasons it is a pain because you’re in a groove and you don’t want to take that pause,” he said.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

“That’s what he does. He’s in a groove right now. You just see, watching his swing from the side, how on time everything is.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2022

Buddy, too, went round and round in a groove and did not see things.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

in a groove

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