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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, finicky |
| Synonyms: | ceremonious, conscientious, conscionable, conventional, exact, formal, formalistic, fussy, good eye, heedful, meticulous, nice, observant, overconscientious, overscrupulous, painstaking, particular, persnickety, precise, proper, punctual, right on, scrupulous, strict |
| Antonyms: | careless, easy-going, informal, uncaring |
| Main Entry: | scrupulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely careful |
| Synonyms: | conscientious, conscionable, critical, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, honest, honorable, just, meticulous, minute, moral, nice, painstaking, particular, precise, principled, punctilious, punctual, right, rigorous, strict, thinking twice, true, upright |
| Notes: | meticulous first meant 'fearful' or 'timid' and now means 'exact, finicky, or precise'; scrupulous means 'conscientious or principled' |
| Antonyms: | careless, negligent, unscrupulous |
| Main Entry: | selective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discriminating |
| Synonyms: | careful, choicy, choosy, discerning, discriminatory, eclectic, fussy, judicious, particular, persnickety*, picky, scrupulous, select |
| Antonyms: | open, uncaring, undiscriminating, unselective |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | squeamish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nauseated; finicky |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, captious, delicate, disgusted, dizzy, exacting, fastidious, fussy, hypercritical, mincing, particular, prim, prudish, puritanical, qualmish, queasy, queer, scrupulous, shaky, sick, sick to one's stomach, sickly, strait-laced, unsettled, upset, vertiginous |
| Antonyms: | ready, unpicky, willing |
| 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: | finical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | finicky |
| Synonyms: | choosey, choosy, critical, fastidious, finicking, fussy, meticulous, niggling, nitpicking, overparticular, particular, persnickety, picky |
| Main Entry: | inkhorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pedantic |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, arid, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, formalistic, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, literary, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pedantical, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
| 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 |
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