| firm | | |
| n. (group) | 1. business firm, firm, house | the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments.; "he worked for a brokerage house" |
| ~ corp, corporation | a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state. |
| ~ business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern | a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it.; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" |
| ~ accounting firm | a firm of accountants who provide accounting and auditing services for a fee. |
| ~ consulting company, consulting firm | a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee. |
| ~ publisher, publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house | a firm in the publishing business. |
| ~ dealer | a firm engaged in trading. |
| ~ law firm | a firm of lawyers. |
| ~ auction house | a firm that conducts auctions. |
| v. (change) | 2. firm, tauten | become taut or tauter.; "Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened" |
| ~ tighten | become tight or tighter.; "The rope tightened" |
| v. (change) | 3. firm, tauten | make taut or tauter.; "tauten a rope" |
| ~ tighten, fasten | make tight or tighter.; "Tighten the wire" |
| adj. | 4. firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering | marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable.; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty" |
| ~ resolute | firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination.; "stood resolute against the enemy"; "faced with a resolute opposition"; "a resolute and unshakeable faith" |
| adj. | 5. firm, solid | not soft or yielding to pressure.; "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground" |
| ~ hard | resisting weight or pressure. |
| adj. | 6. firm, strong | strong and sure.; "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope" |
| ~ forceful | characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical).; "a forceful speaker"; "a forceful personality"; "forceful measures"; "a forceful plan for peace" |
| adj. | 7. firm | not subject to revision or change.; "a firm contract"; "a firm offer" |
| ~ settled | established or decided beyond dispute or doubt.; "with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night" |
| adj. | 8. firm | (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling.; "his voice was firm and confident"; "a firm step" |
| ~ steady | not subject to change or variation especially in behavior.; "a steady beat"; "a steady job"; "a steady breeze"; "a steady increase"; "a good steady ballplayer" |
| adj. | 9. firm, steady, unfluctuating | not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall.; "stocks are still firm" |
| ~ stable | resistant to change of position or condition.; "a stable ladder"; "a stable peace"; "a stable relationship"; "stable prices" |
| adj. | 10. firm | securely established.; "holds a firm position as the country's leading poet" |
| ~ secure | free from danger or risk.; "secure from harm"; "his fortune was secure"; "made a secure place for himself in his field" |
| adj. | 11. firm | possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue.; "firm muscles" |
| ~ healthy | having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease.; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy" |
| adj. | 12. fast, firm, immobile | securely fixed in place.; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car" |
| ~ fixed | securely placed or fastened or set.; "a fixed piece of wood"; "a fixed resistor" |
| adj. | 13. fast, firm, loyal, truehearted | unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause.; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"; "fast friends" |
| ~ faithful | steadfast in affection or allegiance.; "years of faithful service"; "faithful employees"; "we do not doubt that England has a faithful patriot in the Lord Chancellor" |
| adv. | 14. firm, firmly, steadfastly, unwaveringly | with resolute determination.; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm" |
| rigid | | |
| adj. | 1. rigid, stiff | incapable of or resistant to bending.; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck" |
| ~ inflexible | resistant to being bent.; "an inflexible iron bar"; "an inflexible knife blade" |
| adj. | 2. rigid, strict | incapable of compromise or flexibility. |
| ~ intolerant | unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion. |
| adj. | 3. inflexible, rigid, unbending | incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances.; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate" |
| ~ unadaptable | not adaptable. |
| adj. | 4. rigid | designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure. |
| ~ aeronautics, astronautics | the theory and practice of navigation through air or space. |
| ~ semirigid | having a form maintained by a rigid internal structure as well as by internal gas pressure. |
| adj. | 5. fixed, rigid, set | fixed and unmoving.; "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"; "his bearded face already has a set hollow look"; "a face rigid with pain" |
| ~ nonmoving, unmoving | not in motion. |
| severe | | |
| adj. | 1. severe, terrible, wicked | intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality.; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough" |
| ~ intense | possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree.; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense" |
| adj. | 2. hard, knockout, severe | very strong or vigorous.; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow" |
| ~ strong | having strength or power greater than average or expected.; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man" |
| adj. | 3. austere, severe, stark, stern | severely simple.; "a stark interior" |
| ~ plain | not elaborate or elaborated; simple.; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building" |
| adj. | 4. severe, spartan | unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment.; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing" |
| ~ nonindulgent, strict | characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint. |
| adj. | 5. dangerous, grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe | causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm.; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" |
| ~ critical | being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency.; "a critical shortage of food"; "a critical illness"; "an illness at the critical stage" |
| adj. | 6. severe | very bad in degree or extent.; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage" |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| solid | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. solid | matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure. |
| ~ matter | that which has mass and occupies space.; "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it" |
| ~ solid food, food | any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment.; "food and drink" |
| ~ precipitate | a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering. |
| ~ plastic | generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives. |
| ~ glass | a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure. |
| ~ crystal | a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure. |
| ~ powder, pulverisation, pulverization | a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized. |
| ~ dry ice | solidified carbon dioxide; dry ice sublimates at -78.5 C and is used mainly as a refrigerant. |
| ~ vitrification | a vitrified substance; the glassy result of being vitrified. |
| n. (state) | 2. solid, solid state, solidness | the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape. |
| ~ state of matter, state | (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container).; "the solid state of water is called ice" |
| n. (shape) | 3. solid | a three-dimensional shape. |
| ~ shape, form | the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance.; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" |
| ~ convex shape, convexity | a shape that curves or bulges outward. |
| ~ concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature | a shape that curves or bends inward. |
| ~ cylinder | a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases). |
| ~ polyhedron | a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces. |
| ~ toroid | the doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus. |
| ~ mold, stamp, mould, cast | the distinctive form in which a thing is made.; "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region" |
| ~ cube, block | a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides. |
| ~ ovoid | an egg-shaped object. |
| ~ frustum | a truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed. |
| adj. | 4. solid | characterized by good substantial quality.; "solid comfort"; "a solid base hit" |
| ~ good | having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified.; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office" |
| adj. | 5. solid | of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous.; "ice is water in the solid state" |
| ~ hard | resisting weight or pressure. |
| ~ solidified, coagulated | changed into a solid mass. |
| ~ concrete | formed by the coalescence of particles. |
| ~ congealed, jelled, jellied | congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling.; "in Georgia they serve congealed salads" |
| ~ dry | used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones.; "dry weight" |
| ~ semisolid | partly solid; having a rigidity and viscosity intermediate between a solid and a liquid.; "a semisolid mixture" |
| ~ solid-state | consisting of semiconductor materials and components and related devices. |
| ~ solid-state | characteristic of or relating to the physical properties of solid materials especially electromagnetic or thermodynamic or structural properties of crystalline solids. |
| adj. | 6. solid | entirely of one substance with no holes inside.; "a solid block of wood" |
| ~ massive | being the same substance throughout.; "massive silver" |
| adj. | 7. solid | of one substance or character throughout.; "solid gold"; "carved out of solid rock" |
| ~ homogeneous, homogenous | all of the same or similar kind or nature.; "a close-knit homogeneous group" |
| adj. | 8. solid | uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks.; "a solid line across the page"; "solid sheets of water" |
| ~ unbroken | marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence.; "cars in an unbroken procession"; "the unbroken quiet of the afternoon" |
| adj. | 9. hearty, satisfying, solid, square, substantial | providing abundant nourishment.; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day" |
| ~ wholesome | conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being.; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food" |
| adj. | 10. solid, strong, substantial | of good quality and condition; solidly built.; "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings" |
| ~ sound | in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay.; "a sound timber"; "the wall is sound"; "a sound foundation" |
| adj. | 11. solid | having three dimensions.; "a solid object" |
| ~ cubic, three-dimensional | having three dimensions. |
| adj. | 12. solid | impenetrable for the eye.; "solid blackness" |
| ~ opaque | not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight.; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays" |
| adj. | 13. solid | financially sound.; "the bank is solid and will survive this attack" |
| ~ sound | financially secure and safe.; "sound investments"; "a sound economy" |
| adj. | 14. solid | of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial.; "work of solid scholarship"; "based on solid facts" |
| ~ serious | concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities.; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!" |
| adj. | 15. solid, upstanding | meriting respect or esteem.; "an upstanding member of the community" |
| ~ respectable | characterized by socially or conventionally acceptable morals.; "a respectable woman" |
| adj. | 16. self-colored, self-coloured, solid | of the same color throughout.; "solid color" |
| ~ homogeneous, homogenous | all of the same or similar kind or nature.; "a close-knit homogeneous group" |
| adj. | 17. solid, unanimous, whole | acting together as a single undiversified whole.; "a solid voting bloc" |
| ~ undiversified | not diversified. |
| stiff | | |
| n. (person) | 1. stiff | an ordinary man.; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff" |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| n. (body) | 2. cadaver, clay, corpse, remains, stiff | the dead body of a human being.; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay" |
| ~ dead body, body | a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person.; "they found the body in the lake" |
| ~ cremains | the remains of a dead body after cremation. |
| adj. | 3. stiff | not moving or operating freely.; "a stiff hinge" |
| ~ immobile | not capable of movement or of being moved. |
| adj. | 4. stiff | powerful.; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze" |
| ~ strong | having strength or power greater than average or expected.; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man" |
| adj. | 5. buckram, starchy, stiff | rigidly formal.; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" |
| ~ formal | being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress).; "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education" |
| adj. | 6. potent, stiff, strong | having a strong physiological or chemical effect.; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea"; "a stiff drink" |
| ~ effective, effectual, efficacious | producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect.; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" |
| ~ fertile | capable of reproducing. |
| ~ equipotent | having equal strength or efficacy. |
| ~ multipotent | able to many things.; "multipotent drugs" |
| ~ powerful | having great power or force or potency or effect.; "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument" |
| adj. | 7. besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet | very drunk. |
| ~ argot, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular, slang, cant | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).; "they don't speak our lingo" |
| ~ drunk, inebriated, intoxicated | stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol).; "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated" |
| adv. | 8. stiff | extremely.; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff" |
| adv. | 9. stiff, stiffly | in a stiff manner.; "his hands lay stiffly" |
| tough | | |
| n. (person) | 1. street fighter, tough | someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing. |
| ~ battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper | someone who fights (or is fighting). |
| n. (person) | 2. goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie | an aggressive and violent young criminal. |
| ~ bully | a hired thug. |
| ~ criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. |
| n. (person) | 3. bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo | a cruel and brutal fellow. |
| ~ aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker | someone who attacks. |
| ~ bullyboy | a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction. |
| ~ muscleman, muscle | a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard.; "the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him" |
| ~ skinhead | a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations. |
| ~ plug-ugly, tough guy | someone who bullies weaker people. |
| adj. | 4. tough | not given to gentleness or sentimentality.; "a tough character" |
| ~ hard | dispassionate.; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer" |
| ~ insensitive | deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive.; "insensitive to the needs of the patients" |
| ~ hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious | tough and callous by virtue of experience. |
| ~ tough-minded, unsentimental | facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination. |
| adj. | 5. rugged, tough | very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution.; "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| adj. | 6. tough, toughened | physically toughened.; "the tough bottoms of his feet" |
| ~ rugged | sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring.; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture" |
| ~ experienced, experient | having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation. |
| ~ strong | having strength or power greater than average or expected.; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man" |
| ~ calloused, callous, thickened | having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear.; "calloused skin"; "with a workman's callous hands" |
| ~ enured, inured, hardened | made tough by habitual exposure.; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men" |
| ~ weather-beaten | tanned and coarsened from being outdoors.; "a weather-beaten face" |
| adj. | 7. sturdy, tough | substantially made or constructed.; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal" |
| ~ rugged | sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring.; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture" |
| adj. | 8. ruffianly, tough | violent and lawless.; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs" |
| ~ violent | acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity.; "a violent attack"; "a violent person"; "violent feelings"; "a violent rage"; "felt a violent dislike" |
| adj. | 9. bad, tough | feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad').; "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ uncomfortable | providing or experiencing physical discomfort.; "an uncomfortable chair"; "an uncomfortable day in the hot sun" |
| adj. | 10. tough | resistant to cutting or chewing. |
| ~ inedible, uneatable | not suitable for food. |
| ~ gristly, cartilaginous, rubbery | difficult to chew. |
| ~ chewy | requiring much chewing. |
| ~ coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike, leathery | resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable. |
| ~ sinewy, unchewable, fibrous, stringy | (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew. |
| ~ fibrous, hempen | having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute. |
| ~ tough-skinned | having a relatively tough outer covering. |
| adj. | 11. hard, tough | unfortunate or hard to bear.; "had hard luck"; "a tough break" |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| adj. | 12. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough | making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
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