Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meticulous, fastidious |
| Synonyms: | careful, ceremonious, choosy, exact, finicky, formal, fussy, genteel, inflexible, nice, particular, persnickety*, picky, priggish, prim, prissy, punctilious, rigid, scrupulous, stickling, stiff*, strict, stuffy, uncompromising |
| Antonyms: | careless, loose, negligent, slipshod |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prudish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy and strict in behavior |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, affected, artificial, austere, bigoted, conventional, demure, fastidious, finicky*, genteel, illiberal, mincing, narrow, narrow-minded, offish, overexact, overmodest, overnice, precise, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, simpering, square, squeamish, starchy, stern, stiff*, stilted, straitlaced, stuffy, uptight* |
| Notes: | prudent means careful and sensible or marked by sound judgment, while prudish means excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct or dress |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, extroverted, outgoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | niggling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insignificant |
| Synonyms: | finicky, fussy, petty, picayune, trifling |
| Main Entry: | hard-to-please |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely particular |
| Synonyms: | choosy, critical, demanding, detailed, finicky, fussy, meticulous, nit-picking, particular, picky, scrutinizing |
| Antonyms: | undemanding |
| Main Entry: | overcritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical |
| 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, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, humbling, hypercritical, lowering, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, particular, penetrating, reproachful, sarcastic, satirical, scolding, severe, sharp, trenchant, withering |
| Main Entry: | trig |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | neat |
| Synonyms: | accurate, apple-pie order, chic*, correct, dainty, dapper, elegant, exact, fastidious, finical, finicky, immaculate, in good order, in good shape, methodical, natty, neat as a pin, nice, orderly, precise, prim, proper, regular, shipshape, sleek, slick*, smart*, snug, spick-and-span, spotless, spruce, systematic, taut, tidy, trim, well-groomed, well-kept |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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