| 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: | careful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious; painstaking |
Synonyms: |
accurate, alert, apprehensive, assiduous, attentive, chary, choosy, circumspect, concerned, conscientious, conservative, cool, deliberate, discreet, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fussy, going to great lengths, guarded, heedful, judicious, leery, meticulous, mindful, observant, particular, playing safe, precise, prim, protective, provident, prudent, punctilious, regardful, religious, rigorous, scrupulous, selfdisciplined, shy, sober, solicitous, solid, thorough, thoughtful, vigilant, wary |
Antonyms: |
careless, inattentive, incautious, thoughtless, uncareful, unconcerned, unscrupulous |
| Main Entry: | chary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, cautious |
Synonyms: |
cagey, calculating, canny, circumspect, considerate, constrained, discreet, economical, fastidious, frugal, gingerly, guarded, heedful, hesitant, inhibited, leery, loath, miserly, particular, prudent, reluctant, restrained, safe, scrupulous, sparing, stingy, suspicious, thrifty, uneasy, wary, watchful |
Antonyms: |
careless, hasty, heedless, incautious, rash, uncareful, willing |
| Main Entry: | choosy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fussy, discriminating |
Synonyms: |
dainty, eclectic, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicky, nice, overparticular, particular, persnickety*, picky, prissy, select, selective |
Antonyms: |
undemanding, unfastidious, unfussy |
| Main Entry: | conscientious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thorough, careful |
Synonyms: |
complete, diligent, exact, exacting, faithful, fastidious, fussy, hanging in, hanging tough, heart and soul into, heedful, meticulous, minding p's and q's, painstaking, particular, playing safe, punctilious, punctual, reliable, tough, walking on eggs |
Antonyms: |
careless, inexact, irresponsible, uncareful, unconscientious, unscrupulous |
| Main Entry: | dainty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | finicky, particular |
Synonyms: |
acute, choosy, delicate, fastidious, finical, finicking, fussy, mincing, nice, perceptive, persnickety*, refined, scrupulous, tasteful |
Antonyms: |
accepting, easy |
| Main Entry: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fussy, discriminating |
Synonyms: |
alert, careful, critical, dainty, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, gentle, nice, particular, persnickety, prudish, pure, refined, scrupulous, sensitive, squeamish, thin-skinned |
Antonyms: |
imprecise, indelicate, indiscriminating, uncritical |
| Main Entry: | difficult |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unmanageable socially |
Synonyms: |
argumentative, bearish, boorish, dark, demanding, fastidious, finicky, fractious, fussy, grim, hard to please, impolite, intractable, irritable, oafish, obstreperous, perverse, picky, refractory, rigid, rude, tiresome, tough, troublesome, trying, unaccommodating, unamenable |
Antonyms: |
calm, friendly, sociable |
| Main Entry: | discriminating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical |
Synonyms: |
acute, astute, careful, choicy, choosy, cultivated, discerning, distinctive, eclectic, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, individualizing, judicious, keen, opinionated, particular, persnickety*, picky, prudent, refined, select, selective, sensitive, tasteful, wise |
Antonyms: |
uncritical, undiscriminating |
| Main Entry: | disgusted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickened; offended |
Synonyms: |
abhorred, appalled, displeased, fastidious, fed up*, full up, grossed out, had bellyful, had enough, had it, nauseated, nauseous, outraged, overwrought, queasy, repelled, repulsed, revolted, satiated, scandalized, sick, sick and tired of, sick of, squeamish, teed off, tired, turned off, unhappy, up to here, weary |
Antonyms: |
attracted, delighted, desirous, happy, pleased |