overfastidious

ADJECTIVE

fussy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

choosy conscientious discriminating finicky scrupulous squeamish

WEAK

careful conscionable dainty difficult exact exacting fastidious finical fretful fuddy-duddy hard to please heedful nit-picking painstaking persnickety picky picky-picky punctilious punctual querulous stickling

Antonyms

STRONGEST

careless uncritical unscrupulous

WEAK

undemanding unfussy

Example Sentences

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He was overfastidious in his dress, and critical and fussy about her lack of order in housekeeping.

From The One Woman by Dixon, Thomas