Synonyms of businesslike

businesslike

adjective

as in professional

having or showing qualities that are considered good in business

His businesslike approach to the dispute was very helpful.

a businesslike manner

Synonyms & Similar Words

• professional
• practical
• polite
• serious
• earnest
• strict
• unsmiling
• stern
• staid
• humorless
• solemn
• sedate
• harsh
• no-nonsense
• distinguished
• sober
• dignified
• po-faced
• severe
• uncomic
• weighty
• grave
• grim
• sobersided
• serious-minded
• gloomy
• elevated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• funny
• comical
• light
• droll
• comic
• ridiculous
• hysterical
• farcical
• riotous
• ludicrous
• lighthearted
• hilarious
• antic
• uproarious
• hysteric
• frivolous
• laughable
• goofy
• risible
• scatterbrained
• puerile
• flighty
• screaming
• foolish
• harebrained
• silly
• absurd
• zany
• mad
• playful
• unwise
• humorous
• sidesplitting
• preposterous
• insane
• fatuous
• nonsensical
• balmy
• crazy
• jocular
• jerky
• nutty
• cockeyed
• sappy
• flippant
• brainless
• wacky
• witless
• daffy
• lunatic
• kooky
• light-headed
• senseless
• asinine
• facetious
• loony
• whacky
• joking
• cuckoo
• daft
• kittenish
• featherbrained
• ludic
• flip
• screwball
• dotty
• weak-minded
• half-witted
• kookie
• looney
• jesting

Examples of businesslike in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At first, the Bennett-Lapid government was able to show a businesslike governing style. —Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2023

After two days of dramatic testimony from Stormy Daniels, the hush money trial of Donald Trump finished up the week with a businesslike string of custodial witnesses. —Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 10 May 2024

Nothing overtly frightening, but all of it was terrible—the tautness of the tape, the businesslike trot of the dogs, the way the crowns of the trees thrashed with the force of the helicopter blades. —Fiona McFarlane, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024

This made war suited, in theory, to a businesslike model of decentralization and outsourcing, which would confer the benefits of speed, flexibility, and low cost. —Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024