Synonyms for Fastidious

Synonyms for "fastidious" (163 found)

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Closest matches (33)

Adjective(5 words)

exacting choosey choosiest daintier daintiest

accurate appreciative bleached bright careful censorious choicy choose choosy civilized clean cleanly conscientious conventional critical cultivated cultured dainty deliberate delicate

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differential difficultdirt free

Adjective(4 words)

anal-retentive choosy conscientious dainty

Noun(1 words)

cavilling

Strong matches (49)

dirt-free discriminate discriminating discriminative distinctive distinguishing eclectic elegant exact exacting fair faithful fine finical finicky fresh fussy gingerly graceful gracile

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gracious hypercritical immaculate kosher meticulous mincing neat nice nit-picking

Adjective(11 words)

exacting finical finicking finickity finicky finikin fussy hypercritical lily-handed meticulous niggly

Adjective(8 words)

finickier finicky fussiest fussy hygienic-mindedlearned traitmethodical meticulous

Noun(1 words)

needlepoint

Related words (81)

Adjective(10 words)

nit-picky nitpickish nitty overcritical overscrupulous particular pedantic pernickety persnickety picky

Verb(1 words)

nitpicked

Noun(2 words)

nitpicking primping

nonpollutedof cleanly habitsoverconscientious overscrupulous particular perfectionist perfectionistic picky polished precious precise precisianistic priggish prissy prudish punctilious punctual pure puristic puritanic

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Adjective(6 words)

painstaking particular prim prissiest prissy scrupulous

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

4 entries

disposition quality tendency trait

More specific

4 entries

exacting hygienic pedantic sanitary

Collocations

6 entries

fastidious about cleanlinessfastidious about detailsfastidious eaterfastidious editorfastidious naturefastidious standards

Inflections

2 entries

more fastidiousmost fastidious

Derivations

3 entries

fastidiously fastidiousness unfastidious

Antonyms

1 entries

unfastidious

similar

19 entries

choosey choosy dainty finical finicky fussy meticulous nice old-maidish old-womanish overnice particular pernickety persnickety picky prissy

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Fastidious tastes will be most charmed with such verses as these.

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He's very fastidious when it comes to booking trips.

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I used to be a bit more fastidious.

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Tom is fastidious.

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Fastidious