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over-delicate
| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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