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strictly business

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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Despite their history, Fulton keeps it strictly business during the season.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2024

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

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2023

Todd Boehly's Chelsea purchase may be strictly business but the American got the full-on Premier League experience as he looked down on his expensive new acquisition from on high at Stamford Bridge.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2022

Do you think it is possible that they can really work together in a strictly business fashion?

From Slate • Aug. 22, 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

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