playing hardball
Synonyms for playing hardball
- active
- adequate
- compelling
- competent
- direct
- efficient
- forceful
- impressive
- potent
- powerful
- practical
- sufficient
- useful
- valid
- effectual
- efficacious
- able
- capable
- cogent
- convincing
- emphatic
- energetic
- forcible
- having lead in pencil
- live
- moving
- on the ball
- operative
- powerhouse
- producing
- resultant
- serviceable
- serving
- sound
- striking
- telling
- trenchant
- virtuous
- wicked
- yielding
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Antonyms for playing hardball
- helpless
- impotent
- inadequate
- incapable
- incompetent
- ineffective
- inefficient
- insufficient
- unable
- useless
- weak
- worthless
- unproductive
- unsuccessful
- fruitless
- inoperative
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
more effective
adjective. productive, persuasive
- able
- active
- adequate
- capable
- cogent
- compelling
- competent
- convincing
- direct
- effectual
- efficacious
- efficient
- emphatic
- energetic
- forceful
- forcible
- having lead in pencil
- impressive
- live
- moving
- on the ball
- operative
- playing hardball
- potent
- powerful
- powerhouse
- practical
- producing
- resultant
- serviceable
- serving
- sound
- striking
- sufficient
- telling
- trenchant
- useful
- valid
- virtuous
- wicked
- yielding
most effective
adjective. productive, persuasive
- able
- active
- adequate
- capable
- cogent
- compelling
- competent
- convincing
- direct
- effectual
- efficacious
- efficient
- emphatic
- energetic
- forceful
- forcible
- having lead in pencil
- impressive
- live
- moving
- on the ball
- operative
- playing hardball
- potent
- powerful
- powerhouse
- practical
- producing
- resultant
- serviceable
- serving
- sound
- striking
- sufficient
- telling
- trenchant
- useful
- valid
- virtuous
- wicked
- yielding
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.