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Adjectives (7)

meticulous, painstaking, finical, finicky, fussy, pernickety, punctilious

adj. excessively concerned about niceties

Fuzzynyms (53)

adj. marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"

conscientious, meticulous, painstaking, scrupulous

adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"

tidy

adj. marked by good order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"

critical

adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"

belittling, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disparaging, slighting

adj. expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"

peddling, small, lilliputian, little, petty, trivial, fiddling, footling, niggling, picayune

adj. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

fretful, querulous, whiney, whining, whiny

adj. habitually complaining; "a whining child"

cantankerous, crotchety, ornery

adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

disagreeable, ill-natured

adj. not to your liking; "a most disagreeable journey"; "a disagreeable old man"; "in a disagreeable mood"

fractious, cranky, irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy, techy

adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

carping, caviling, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling, cavilling

adj. quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

Synonyms (12)

particular, choosy, choosey

adj. difficult to please

dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish

adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

exacting

adj. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

fussy, old-maidish, old-womanish

adj. primly fastidious

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