| Main Entry: | fastidious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very careful, meticulous |
Synonyms: |
captious, choosy, critical, dainty, demanding, difficult, discriminating, easily disgusted, exacting, finical, finicky, fussbudgety, fussy, hard to please, hypercritical, nice, nit-picky, overdelicate, overnice, particular, persnickety*, picky, punctilious, queasy, squeamish, stickling |
Antonyms: |
indifferent, indiscriminating, uncareful, uncouth, uncritical, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | finicky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overparticular |
Synonyms: |
choosy, critical, dainty, difficult, fastidious, finical, finicking, fussbudget, fussy, hard to please, nice, nit-picking, overnice, persnickety*, picky, scrupulous, squeamish, stickling |
Antonyms: |
easy, open, uncritical |
| Main Entry: | pedantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bookish, precise |
Synonyms: |
abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
Antonyms: |
imprecise, informal |
| Main Entry: | precious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely sophisticated and picky |
Synonyms: |
affected, alembicated, artful, artificial, chichi*, choosy, dainty, delicate, fastidious, finicky, fragile, fussy, la-di-da, nice, ostentatious, overnice, overrefined, particular, persnickety*, precieux, pretentious, refined, showy, stagy, studied |
Antonyms: |
defective, deficient, impaired |
| Main Entry: | prissy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular and fussy |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, epicene, fastidious, finicky, genteel, goody-goody, goody-two-shoes, overnice, pansified, persnickety, picky, precious, prim, prim and proper, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, squeamish, stickling, strait-laced, stuffy, tight-laced |
Antonyms: |
informal, unconcerned |
| Main Entry: | prudish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy and strict in behavior |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, affected, artificial, austere, bigoted, conventional, demure, fastidious, finicky*, genteel, illiberal, mincing, narrow, narrow-minded, offish, overexact, overmodest, overnice, precise, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, simpering, square, squeamish, starchy, stern, stiff*, stilted, straitlaced, stuffy, uptight* |
| Notes: | prudent means careful and sensible or marked by sound judgment, while prudish means excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct or dress |
Antonyms: |
bold, brave, extroverted, outgoing |
| Main Entry: | inkhorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pedantic |
Synonyms: |
abstruse, academic, arid, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, formalistic, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, literary, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pedantical, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
| Main Entry: | pedantical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pedantic |
Synonyms: |
abstruse, academic, arid, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, formalistic, fussy, hairsplitting, inkhorn, learned, literary, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |