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firmnoun a commercial or industrial activity or organizationmerged with another firm to become a major player in the brokerage business business, company, concern, enterprise, establishment, house, interest, outfit conglomerate, corporation, multinationalassociation, cartel, chain, combine, syndicate, trustagency, dealer, outletmicroenterprise firmadjectivenot showing weakness or uncertaintya friendly fellow with a ready smile and a firm handshake forceful, hearty, iron, lusty, robust, solid, stout, strong, sturdy, vigorous hard, ironclad, mighty, powerful, tough, unyieldinganimated, brisk, energetic, frisky, jaunty, jazzy, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightful, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippyassured, certain, confident, sanguine, secure, sure uncertain, weak feeble, fragile, fraillimp, listless, spiritlessdiffident, insecure, self-doubtingcharacterless, effete, frail, spineless, weakened, weak-kneed, wimpy, wishy-washy having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressurecold butter that was too firm to spread compact, hard, rigid, solid, stiff, unyielding case-hardened, compacted, compressed, hardened, indurated, stiffened, temperedclose, dense, heavy, thick, thicksetinelastic, inflexible, ramrod, unbendingcompressed, condensedadamantine, rocklikesturdy, substantialimpenetrable, impermeable, nonporous flabby, soft, spongy, squashy, squishy loose, scattered, thinbendable, elastic, flexible, malleable, pliable, pliant, suppledroopy, flaccid, floppy, lank, limp, slackairy, lightpermeable, porousultrasoft firmly positioned in place and difficult to dislodgewas firm in the saddle during the canter fast, frozen, jammed, lodged, set, snug, stuck, tight, wedged bonded, cemented, gluedanchored, clampedembedded(also imbedded), entrenched(also intrenched), impacted, implantedattached, bound, fastened, securedimmovable, unyielding insecure, loose detached, dislodged, freed, loosened, unattached, unbound, undone, unfastened, unsecuredmovable(or moveable), yielding fully committed to achieving a goalasked him to reconsider, but he was firm in his commitment to the project bent (on or upon), bound, decisive, determined, do-or-die, hell-bent (on or upon), intent, out, purposeful, resolute, resolved, set, single-minded bitter, vehementcertain, cocksure, confident, positive, sureearnest, serioussteady, unfaltering, unhesitating, unswerving, unwaveringadamant, adamantine, dogged, hard, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, obdurate, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful(or wilful) on one's mettle faltering, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, undetermined, unresolved, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed distrustful, doubtful, dubious, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, unsettled, unsuredisinclined, indisposed, loath(also loth or loathe), reluctant having been established and usually not subject to changethe selling price of the house is firm, so there'll be no dickering certain, determinate, final, fixed, flat, frozen, hard, hard-and-fast, inexpugnable, set, settled, stable nonadjustable, noncancelable, nonnegotiable, unchangeableconstant, steady, unchanging, uniform, unwaveringdefinite, exact, explicit, specificgiven, stated, stipulateddependable, good, reliable, responsible, safe, solid, sure, tried, tried-and-true, true, trustworthy, trusty adjustable, changeable, negotiableindefinite, open-ended, unspecifiedcapricious, changeful, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile marked by the ability to withstand stress without structural damage or distortionbuilt on a firm foundation, so the house hasn't settled bombproof, fast, sound, stable, stalwart, strong, sturdy dependable, durable, reliableinfrangible, irrefragable, unbreakablebeefy, solidcohesive, tough rickety, unsound, unstable, unsteady infirm, insecure, weakshaky, tottering, tottery, unbalanced, wobbly(also wabbly)unsubstantial based on sound reasoning or informationthat assassination theory is far from firm, since there's not a shred of actual evidence to back it up commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensical, good, hard, informed, just, justified, levelheaded, logical, rational, reasonable, reasoned, sensible, sober, solid, valid, well-founded actual, real, truecertain, surecertified, validated, verifiedconfirmed, corroborated, substantiatedcogent, convincingcolorable, credible, plausible groundless, illogical, invalid, irrational, nonrational, nonsensical, nonvalid, unfounded, uninformed, unjustified, unreasonable, unreasoned, unsound unsubstantiated, unsupported, unwarrantedflimsy, implausible, unconvincing, weakfallacious, false, misguided, misled in the 14th century |