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persnickety

Main Entry:
persnickety [per-snik-i-tee]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fussy, particular
Synonyms: careful, choosy, fastidious, finicky, nice, picky
Antonyms: open, unconcerned, unfussy
Main Entry: dainty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: finicky, particular
Synonyms: acute, choosy, delicate, fastidious, finical, finicking, fussy, mincing, nice, perceptive, persnickety*, refined, scrupulous, tasteful
Antonyms: accepting, easy
Main Entry: delicate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fussy, discriminating
Synonyms: alert, careful, critical, dainty, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, gentle, nice, particular, persnickety, prudish, pure, refined, scrupulous, sensitive, squeamish, thin-skinned
Antonyms: imprecise, indelicate, indiscriminating, uncritical
Main Entry: discriminating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: critical
Synonyms: acute, astute, careful, choicy, choosy, cultivated, discerning, distinctive, eclectic, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, individualizing, judicious, keen, opinionated, particular, persnickety*, picky, prudent, refined, select, selective, sensitive, tasteful, wise
Antonyms: uncritical, undiscriminating
Main Entry: exacting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: demanding
Synonyms: burdensome, by the book, careful, critical, difficult, exigent, finicky, fussy, grievous, hard, harsh, hypercritical, imperious, nit-picking, onerous, oppressive, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, precise, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, trying, unsparing, weighty
Antonyms: giving, lending
Main Entry: fastidious
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
Main Entry: finicky
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overparticular
Synonyms: choosy, critical, dainty, difficult, fastidious, finical, finicking, fussbudget, fussy, hard to please, nice, nit-picking, overnice, persnickety*, picky, scrupulous, squeamish, stickling
Antonyms: easy, open, uncritical
Main Entry: fussy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: meticulous, particular
Synonyms: careful, choosy, conscientious, conscionable, dainty, difficult, discriminating, exact, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicky, fretful, fuddy-duddy, hard to please, heedful, nit-picking, overfastidious, painstaking, persnickety, picky, picky-picky, punctilious, punctual, querulous, scrupulous, squeamish, stickling
Antonyms: uncritical, undemanding, unfussy
Main Entry: hypercritical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: captious
Synonyms: carping, caviling, censorious, critical, demanding, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair-splitting, hard to please, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, persnickety
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