strictly business

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big-league adj.
grave adj.
heavyweight adj.
impersonal adj.
major-league adj.
objective adj.
serious adj.

ADJECTIVE

big-league

Synonyms

WEAK

big-deal big-time blue-chip chief critical crucial exceptional foremost four-star front-page great high-power important impressive influential large leading major playing hard ball prominent significant

ADJECTIVE

grave

Synonyms

STRONG

dignified dull earnest heavy muted quiet sage sedate sober subdued

WEAK

cold sober deadpan dour grim grim-faced leaden long-faced meaningful no-nonsense ponderous sad saturnine solemn somber staid thoughtful unsmiling

Antonyms

STRONG

agitated boisterous excited light lively trivial unimportant

WEAK

cheerful frivolous funny happy inconsequential ridiculous silly

ADJECTIVE

heavyweight

Synonyms

STRONG

chief grave great heavy major professional

WEAK

big-time blue-chip critical crucial exceptional four-star front-page high-power major-league playing hard ball serious

Antonyms

STRONG

happy inconsequential insignificant little minor small trivial unimportant unskilled

ADJECTIVE

impersonal

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abstract detached indifferent remote

WEAK

bureaucratic businesslike candid cold turkey cold-blooded colorless cool disinterested dispassionate emotionless equal equitable fair formal impartial inhuman neutral nondiscriminatory objective poker-faced straight unbiased uncolored unpassioned

Antonyms

STRONGEST

compassionate interested sympathetic

WEAK

friendly informal personable personal warm

ADJECTIVE

major-league

Synonyms

WEAK

big-league big-time blue-chip chief critical crucial exceptional four-star front-page grave great heavy high-power major notable playing hard ball pre-eminent serious

ADJECTIVE

objective

Synonyms

STRONGEST

detached disinterested dispassionate equitable evenhanded nonpartisan open-minded unbiased

STRONG

cold cool straight

WEAK

impersonal judicial just like it is nondiscriminatory uncolored unemotional uninvolved unprejudiced unprepossessed

Antonyms

STRONGEST

biased interested involved partial passionate prejudiced subjective

STRONG

excited friendly hot warm

WEAK

unfair

ADJECTIVE

serious

Synonyms

STRONGEST

dangerous deep difficult far-reaching grievous important major meaningful severe significant tough urgent

WEAK

arduous fateful fell formidable grave grim hard heavy laborious meaning business menacing momentous no joke no laughing matter of consequence operose out for blood playing hard ball pressing smoking sobering strenuous threatening ugly unamusing unhumorous worrying

Antonyms

STRONGEST

calm easy facile friendly insignificant little meaningless minor small trivial unimportant worthless

WEAK

flippant funny happy light unserious

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strictly business

But, on Thursday, it will be strictly business.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025

These competitions, truly, are strictly business; the players with superior practice results will earn starting roles.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

‘The Godfather’ It’s not personal, it’s strictly business in the 4K restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s Oscar-winning 1972 Mafia epic.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2022

His trip to Japan may be strictly business: long days on the course, relative isolation, and difficult conditions.

From Fox News ● Jul. 19, 2021

I looked down at my notebook, got my pen ready to show him this was strictly business, and continued.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

strictly business

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