Thesaurus:important person
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: An important person edit
Synonyms edit
- baron
- big cheese
- big enchilada
- big gun
- big kahuna
- big man
- big name
- big noise
- big shot
- bigwig
- big wheel
- boss [⇒ thesaurus]
- grand poobah
- head honcho
- heavy hitter
- heavyweight
- high muckamuck
- high muckety-muck
- king of all one surveys
- king of the castle
- king of the hill
- kingpin
- macher (US)
- mayor
- muckamuck
- muckety muck
- mugwump (usually male)
- numero uno
- poobah
- rooster
- somebody
- top banana
- top cat
- top dog
- top gun
- very important person
- VIP
- wheel
Antonyms edit
- worthless person [⇒ thesaurus]
- little guy
- nonentity [⇒ thesaurus]
- peasant
- peon
- pleb
- plebe
- prole
- shrimp
Hyponyms edit
- BMOC (student)
- brass (military or business)
- Master of the Universe (business)
- top brass (military or business)
Hypernyms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “870. repute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “big wheel” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- some of the synonyms at Google Ngram Viewer