Thesaurus:important person

Thesaurus

important person

English

Noun

Sense: An important person

Synonyms

• 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

• worthless person    [⇒ thesaurus]
• little guy
• nonentity    [⇒ thesaurus]
• peasant
• peon
• pleb
• plebe
• prole
• shrimp

Hyponyms

• BMOC (student)
• brass (military or business)
• Master of the Universe (business)
• top brass (military or business)

Hypernyms

• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:boss
• Thesaurus:ruler
• Thesaurus:official

Further reading

• “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 the Google Books Ngram Viewer.