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| Main Entry: | fastidious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very careful, meticulous |
| Synonyms: | captious, choosy, critical, dainty, demanding, difficult, discriminating, exacting, finicky, fussy, hypercritical, nice, particular, persnickety*, picky, punctilious, queasy, squeamish, easily disgusted, finical, fussbudgety, hard to please, nit-picky, overdelicate, overnice, stickling |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, uncouth, uncritical, indiscriminating, uncareful, undemanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | finicky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overparticular |
| Synonyms: | choosy, critical, dainty, difficult, fastidious, fussy, nice, persnickety*, picky, scrupulous, squeamish, finical, finicking, fussbudget, hard to please, nit-picking, overnice, stickling |
| Antonyms: | easy, open, uncritical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pedantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bookish, precise |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting*, learned, ostentatious, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish*, punctilious, scholastic, sententious, stilted, donnish, nit-picking, overnice, schoolish |
| Antonyms: | informal, imprecise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prissy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular and fussy |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, fastidious, finicky, genteel, goody-goody*, persnickety, picky, precious, prim, prudish, puritanical, sissy, squeamish, strait-laced, stuffy*, epicene, goody-two-shoes, overnice, pansified, prim and proper, sissified, stickling, tight-laced |
| Antonyms: | informal, unconcerned |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, precise, pretentious, priggish*, prim, prissy*, proper, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, square, squeamish*, starchy*, stern, stiff*, stilted, straitlaced, stuffy, uptight*, offish, overexact, overmodest, overnice, simpering |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | precious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely sophisticated and picky |
| Synonyms: | affected, artful, artificial, chichi*, choosy, dainty, delicate, fastidious, finicky, fragile, fussy, nice, ostentatious, particular, persnickety*, pretentious, refined, showy, studied, alembicated, la-di-da, overnice, overrefined, precieux, stagy |
| Antonyms: | defective, deficient, impaired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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