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squeamish
Easily shocked or offended; prudish
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  1. Easily shocked or offended; prudish
  2. Excessively fastidious or scrupulous.
  3. Easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseous or nervous
overnice
Too nice; too fastidious, precise, etc.
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  1. Too nice; too fastidious, precise, etc.
meticulous
Showing or acting with extreme care and concern for details.
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  1. Showing or acting with extreme care and concern for details.
  2. Extremely or excessively careful about details; scrupulous or finicky
  3. (Archaic) Excessively careful and precise.
careful
Thorough and painstaking in action or execution; conscientious:
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  1. Thorough and painstaking in action or execution; conscientious:
  2. Attentive to potential danger, error, or harm; cautious:
  3. Protective; solicitous:
meticulous
Showing or acting with extreme care and concern for details.
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  1. Showing or acting with extreme care and concern for details.
  2. Extremely or excessively careful about details; scrupulous or finicky
  3. (Archaic) Excessively careful and precise.
painstaking
Acting with, showing, or involving great care and attention.
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  1. Acting with, showing, or involving great care and attention.
  2. Carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
  3. Taking pains; very careful; diligent
punctilious
Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct.
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  1. Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct.
  2. Very careful about every detail of behavior, ceremony, etc.
  3. Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
scrupulous
Having scruples or compunctions.
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  1. Having scruples or compunctions.
  2. Extremely careful to do the precisely right, proper, or correct thing in every last detail; most punctilious
  3. Exactly and carefully conducted.
choosy
Very careful in choosing; highly selective.
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  1. Very careful in choosing; highly selective.
  2. Taking care when choosing that what is chosen best suits one's tastes, desires or requirements
dainty
Of or showing delicate and refined taste; fastidious
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  1. Of or showing delicate and refined taste; fastidious
  2. Delicately pretty or lovely
  3. Delicately beautiful or charming and usually small:
exacting
Requiring precise accuracy
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  1. Requiring precise accuracy
  2. Making severe or excessive demands; not easily satisfied; strict
  3. Demanding great care, patience, effort, etc.; arduous
finicky
Insisting capriciously on getting just what one wants; difficult to please; fastidious:
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  1. Insisting capriciously on getting just what one wants; difficult to please; fastidious:
  2. (Informal) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
  3. Too particular or exacting; overly dainty or fastidious; fussy
fussy
Full of unnecessary details
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  1. Full of unnecessary details
  2. Easily upset; given to bouts of ill temper:
  3. Paying great or excessive attention to personal tastes and appearance; fastidious:
meticulous
(Archaic) Excessively careful and precise.
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  1. (Archaic) Excessively careful and precise.
  2. Showing or acting with extreme care and concern for details.
  3. Extremely or excessively careful about details; scrupulous or finicky
nice
Having a pleasant or attractive appearance:
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  1. Having a pleasant or attractive appearance:
  2. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle:
  3. Exhibiting courtesy and politeness:
particular
Out of the ordinary; unusual; noteworthy; special
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  1. Out of the ordinary; unusual; noteworthy; special
  2. Of, belonging to, or associated with a specific person, group, thing, or category; not general or universal:
  3. Of, relating to, or providing details; precise:
persnickety
Obsessive about mundane details, demanding for precision.
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  1. Obsessive about mundane details, demanding for precision.
  2. Requiring strict attention to detail; demanding:
  3. Too particular or precise; fastidious; fussy
squeamish
Having a digestive system that is easily upset; easily nauseated; queasy
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  1. Having a digestive system that is easily upset; easily nauseated; queasy
  2. Easily shocked or offended; prudish
  3. Easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseous or nervous
picky
Excessively meticulous; fussy.
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  1. Excessively meticulous; fussy.
  2. (Informal) Overly fastidious or exacting; fussy
  3. Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
Find another word for fastidious. In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for fastidious, like: squeamish, overnice, meticulous, careful, particular, squeamish, careful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious and scrupulous.

Sentence Examples

  • Denton was fastidious about his appearance and he expected the woman at his side to mirror that image.

  • It thrives in light sandy soil, and is not fastidious, coming from sandy, gravelly places.

  • It is not fastidious as to soil or situation, but its best place is in dry soil, fully exposed.

  • Virgo males, therefore, would prefer a mate that is as tidy and as fastidious as they are.

  • The brilliant effect produced in autumn by tufts of this species well repays any trouble it may give, for though by no means fastidious, the difficulty of growing it well in small gardens in the absence of shade and moisture is great.

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