| Main Entry: | fussy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meticulous, particular |
Synonyms: |
careful, choosy, conscientious, conscionable, dainty, difficult, discriminating, exact, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicky, fretful, fuddy-duddy, hard to please, heedful, nit-picking, overfastidious, painstaking, persnickety, picky, picky-picky, punctilious, punctual, querulous, scrupulous, squeamish, stickling |
Antonyms: |
uncritical, undemanding, unfussy |
| Main Entry: | busy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active, on the go |
Synonyms: |
bustling, busy as a beaver, energetic, full, fussy, hectic, humming, hustling, lively, popping, restless, strenuous, tireless, tiring |
Antonyms: |
idle, inactive, lazy |
| 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: | 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: | critical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fault-finding, detracting |
Synonyms: |
analytical, belittling, biting, calumniatory, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, censuring, choleric, condemning, critic, cutting, cynical, demanding, demeaning, derogatory, diagnostic, disapproving, discerning, discriminating, disparaging, exacting, exceptive, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, humbling, hypercritical, lowering, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, particular, penetrating, reproachful, sarcastic, satirical, scolding, severe, sharp, trenchant, withering |
Antonyms: |
complimentary, laudatory, praising |
| 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: | demanding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | challenging, urgent |
Synonyms: |
ambitious, backbreaker, bothersome, clamorous, critical, dictatorial, difficult, exacting, exhausting, exigent, fussy, grievous, hard, imperious, importunate, insistent, nagging, onerous, oppressive, pressing, querulous, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, weighty |
Antonyms: |
easy, facile, trivial, unchallenging, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | detailed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | itemized, particularized |
Synonyms: |
abundant, accurate, all-inclusive, amplified, at length, blow-by-blow, circumstantial, circumstantiated, clocklike, complete, complicated, comprehensive, copious, definite, described, developed, disclosed, elaborate, elaborated, enumerated, exact, exhausting, exhaustive, finicky*, full, fussy*, individual, individualized, intricate, meticulous, minute, narrow, nice, point-by-point, precise, seriatim, specific, specified, thorough, unfolded |
Antonyms: |
brief, cursory, inexhaustive, nonspecific, sparing, uncomplicated, undetailed |
| 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 |