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firm
Synonyms and Antonyms of firm
- merged with another firm to become a major player in the brokerage business
firm
Synonyms and Antonyms of firm
- a friendly fellow with a ready smile and a firm handshake
- cold butter that was too firm to spread
- was firm in the saddle during the canter
- We asked him to reconsider, but he was firm in his commitment to the project.
certain, cocksure, confident, positive, sure
steady, unfaltering, unhesitating, unswerving, unwavering
adamant, 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
distrustful, doubtful, dubious, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, unsettled, unsure
disinclined, indisposed, loath (also loth), reluctant
- The 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
- built on a firm foundation, so the house hasn't settled
- He insists that his argument is firm.
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