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| Main Entry: | picky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | choosy, finicky |
| Synonyms: | captious, critical, dainty, fastidious, fault-finding, fussy, nice, particular, persnickety |
| Antonyms: | accepting |
| Main Entry: | capricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | given to sudden behavior change |
| Synonyms: | arbitrary, careless, contrary, crotchety, effervescent, erratic, every which way*, fanciful, fickle, fitful, flaky*, flighty, freakish, helter-skelter*, impulsive, inconstant, kinky*, mercurial, moody, mutable, odd, picky*, punchy*, queer, quirky, temperamental, ticklish, unpredictable, unreasonable, unstable, variable, volatile, wayward, whimsical, any way the wind blows, blowing hot and cold, changeful, gaga, humorsome, lubricious, notional, up and down, vagarious, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | constant, dependable, sensible, staid, steadfast, steady |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | choosy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fussy, discriminating |
| Synonyms: | dainty, eclectic, exacting, fastidious, finicky, nice, particular, persnickety*, picky, prissy, select, selective, finical, overparticular |
| Antonyms: | undemanding, unfastidious, unfussy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discontented/discontent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy, dissatisfied |
| Synonyms: | blue, complaining, crabby, disaffected, disgruntled, displeased, disturbed, fed up, fretful, malcontent, miserable, perturbed, picky, restless, upset, disquieted, exasperated, griping, kvetching, malcontented, ungratified, vexed |
| Antonyms: | content, contented, happy, patient, pleased, satisfied, uncomplaining |
| Main Entry: | discriminating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical |
| Synonyms: | acute, astute, careful, choosy, discerning, distinctive, eclectic, fastidious, finicky, fussy, judicious, keen, opinionated, particular, persnickety*, picky, prudent, refined, select, selective, sensitive, tasteful, wise, choicy, cultivated, finical, individualizing |
| Antonyms: | uncritical, undiscriminating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dissatisfied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discontented, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, bothered, complaining, crabby*, critical, disaffected, disappointed, disgruntled, displeased, envious, faultfinding, fretful, frustrated, grumbling, grumpy*, insatiable, jaundiced, jealous, malcontent, offended, picky, plaintive, querulous, sulky, sullen, unsatisfied, begrudging, ennuied, fed-up, fretting, griping, grudging, irked, kvetching, malcontented, not satisfied, put-out, sniveling, unappeased, unassuaged, unfulfilled, ungratified, unsated, vexed |
| Notes: | only a person can be dissatisfied while an abstract thing can be unsatisfied (hunger) unsatisfied implies that a wish, need, or expectation that previously existed has not been satisfied; dissatisfied implies no such prior existence, but simply registers a failure to be satisfied |
| Antonyms: | contented, fulfilled, happy, pleased, satisfied, gratified |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exacting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding |
| Synonyms: | burdensome, careful, critical, difficult, exigent, finicky, fussy, grievous, hard, harsh, hypercritical, imperious, onerous, oppressive, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, precise, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, trying, unsparing, weighty, by the book, nit-picking |
| Antonyms: | giving, lending |
| 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: | fussy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meticulous, particular |
| Synonyms: | careful, choosy, conscientious, dainty, difficult, discriminating, exact, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fretful, fuddy-duddy*, heedful, painstaking, persnickety, picky, punctilious, punctual, querulous, scrupulous, squeamish, conscionable, finical, hard to please, nit-picking, overfastidious, picky-picky, stickling |
| Antonyms: | uncritical, undemanding, unfussy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meticulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detailed, perfectionist |
| Synonyms: | accurate, cautious, conscientious, conscionable, crossing the t's, dotting the i's, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking*, painstaking, particular, persnickety*, picky, precise, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, stickling, strict, thorough |
| Antonyms: | careless, messy, sloppy, undetailed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | painstaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meticulous, thorough |
| Synonyms: | assiduous, by the numbers*, careful, conscientious, diligent, earnest, exact, exacting, finicky, fussy, heedful, industrious, particular, persevering, persnickety*, picky, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, sedulous, stickler*, strenuous, thoroughgoing, by the book, conscionable, fussbudget, hard-working |
| Antonyms: | careless, easy, half-baked, thoughtless, unmindful, half-done, unthorough |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | persnickety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fussy, particular |
| Synonyms: | careful, choosy, fastidious, finicky, nice, picky |
| Antonyms: | open, unconcerned, unfussy |
| 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: | selective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discriminating |
| Synonyms: | careful, choosy, discerning, discriminatory, eclectic, fussy, judicious, particular, persnickety*, picky, scrupulous, select, choicy |
| Antonyms: | open, uncaring, undiscriminating, unselective |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stringent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rigid, tight |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, binding, by the numbers*, compelling, confining, convincing, demanding, draconian, drawing, dyed-in-the-wool*, exacting, forceful, hard, hard-nosed, harsh, inflexible, ironclad, picky, poignant, powerful, rigorous, rough, set, severe, stiff, strict, tough, valid, brick-wall, by the book, dead set on, iron-fisted, unpermissive |
| Antonyms: | flexible, inexact, tolerant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discontented |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy |
| Synonyms: | blue, complaining, crabby, disaffected, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, disturbed, fed up, fretful, malcontent, miserable, perturbed, picky, restless, upset, bitching, disquieted, exasperated, griping, kvetching, malcontented, ungratified, vexed |
| Antonyms: | content, contented, happy, pleased, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | hard-to-please |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely particular |
| Synonyms: | choosy, critical, demanding, detailed, finicky, fussy, meticulous, particular, picky, nit-picking, scrutinizing |
| Antonyms: | undemanding |
| Main Entry: | strict |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | authoritarian |
| Synonyms: | austere, disciplinary, dour, draconian*, exacting, firm, forbidding, grim, hard, hard-boiled*, harsh, no-nonsense*, oppressive, picky, prudish, punctilious, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, set, severe, square, stern, straight, strait-laced*, stringent, stuffy*, tough, unsparing, uptight*, dead set, iron-fisted, stickling, unpermissive |
| Antonyms: | amenable, flexible, lenient, tolerant, tractable, yielding, easy-going |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nice |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | precise, neat, refined |
| Synonyms: | accurate, becoming, befitting, careful, choosy, conforming, correct, critical, cultured, dainty, decent, delicate, discerning, discriminating, distinguishing, exact, exacting, fastidious, fine, finicky*, fussy*, genteel, hairsplitting*, meticulous, minute, particular, persnickety*, picky*, proper, respectable, right, rigorous, scrupulous, seemly, squeamish, strict, subtle, tidy, trim, trivial*, virtuous, well-bred, finespun, finical, finicking |
| Antonyms: | disordered, unmannerly, unrefined, imprecise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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