Synonyms of the word fastidious


FASTIDIOUSCHOOSEY - CHOOSY - DAINTY - EXACTING - FINICAL - FINICKY - FUSSY - METICULOUS - NICE - OLD-MAIDISH - OVERNICE - PARTICULAR - PERNICKETY - PERSNICKETY - PICKY - PRISSY - REFINED - SQUEAMISH - TIDY

fastidious

  • adj. Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
  • adj. Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
  • adj. Difficult to please; quick to find fault.

choosey

  • adj. Alternative spelling of choosy.

choosy

  • adj. Taking care when choosing that what is chosen best suits one's tastes, desires or requirements.

dainty

  • n. (obsolete) Esteem, honour.
  • n. A delicacy.
  • n. (Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event…
  • n. (obsolete) An affectionate term of address.
  • adj. (obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
  • adj. Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
  • adj. Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.

exacting

  • adj. Making excessive demands; difficult to satisfy.
  • adj. (of an action, task, etc) Requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
  • adj. (of a person or organization) Characterized by exaction.
  • v. present participle of exact.

finical

  • adj. (college slang) Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.

finicky

  • adj. (informal) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
  • adj. (informal) Demanding, requiring above-normal care.

fussy

  • adj. Anxious or particular about petty details.
  • adj. Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).

meticulous

  • adj. Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
  • adj. (archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.

nice

  • adj. (obsolete) Silly, ignorant; foolish.
  • adj. (now rare) Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.
  • adj. (obsolete) Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.
  • adj. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
  • adj. (obsolete) Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.
  • adj. Respectable; virtuous.
  • adj. Pleasant, satisfactory.
  • adj. Of a person: friendly, attractive.
  • adj. With "and", shows that the given adjective is desirable: pleasantly.
  • adv. (colloquial) Nicely.
  • interj. Used to signify a job well done.
  • interj. Used to signify approval.
  • v. (transitive, computing, Unix) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

old-maidish

  • adj. Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular.

overnice

  • adj. Excessively nice.

particular

  • adj. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
  • adj. Specific; discrete; concrete.
  • adj. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
  • adj. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
  • adj. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
  • adj. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
  • adj. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
  • adj. (law) Containing a part only; limited.
  • adj. (law) Holding a particular estate.
  • adj. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a…
  • n. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
  • n. (obsolete) A person's own individual case.
  • n. (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class…

pernickety

  • adj. (chiefly Britain) Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.
  • adj. Requiring attention to minor details.

persnickety

  • adj. (US) Fastidious or fussy.
  • adj. Obsessive about mundane details, demanding for precision.

picky

  • adj. Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
  • n. (informal) A picture.

prissy

  • adj. excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy.
  • adj. well-mannered, well-behaved.
  • n. A person who is excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy.

refined

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of refine.
  • adj. Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly.
  • adj. Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly.
  • adj. Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly.
  • adj. (of a market) Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
  • n. (finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.

squeamish

  • adj. easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive.
  • adj. averse or reluctant.

tidy

  • adj. (obsolete) In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
  • adj. (obsolete) Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
  • adj. Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
  • adj. Arranged neatly and in order.
  • adj. Not messy; neat and controlled.
  • adj. Satisfactory; comfortable.
  • adj. (informal) Generous, considerable.
  • v. To make tidy; to neaten.
  • n. A tabletop container for pens and stationery.
  • n. A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of…
  • n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
  • n. The wren.
  • interj. (Wales) Expression of positive agreement, usually in reply to a question.

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