fireball

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of FIREBALL

a very energetic person <what this club needs is a fireball who will bring some sorely needed energy and enthusiasm>

Synonyms dynamo, fireball, live wire

Related Words bootstrapper, go-ahead, go-getter, highflier (or highflyer), hummer, hustler, powerhouse, rustler, self-starter; achiever, comer, dasher; doer, enterpriser

Near Antonyms dawdler, idler, loafer, lounger, trifler; clock-watcher, goldbrick, shirker, slacker; couch potato, deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, layabout, lazybones, slouch, slug, slugabed, sluggard; dallier, laggard, lingerer, loiterer, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud

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