| Main Entry: | persnickety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fussy, particular |
Synonyms: |
careful, choosy, fastidious, finicky, nice, picky |
Antonyms: |
open, unconcerned, unfussy |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | exacting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding |
Synonyms: |
burdensome, by the book, careful, critical, difficult, exigent, finicky, fussy, grievous, hard, harsh, hypercritical, imperious, nit-picking, onerous, oppressive, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, precise, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, trying, unsparing, weighty |
Antonyms: |
giving, lending |
| 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: | 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: | hypercritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | captious |
Synonyms: |
carping, caviling, censorious, critical, demanding, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair-splitting, hard to please, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, persnickety |