| 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
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Antonyms: |
indifferent, indiscriminating, uncareful, uncouth, uncritical, undemanding
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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