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Definitions

overnice

ADJECTIVE

fastidious

Synonyms

STRONGEST

choosy discriminating exacting finicky fussy squeamish

WEAK

captious critical dainty demanding difficult easily disgusted finical fussbudgety hard to please hypercritical nice nit-picky overdelicate particular persnickety picky punctilious queasy stickling

Antonyms

STRONGEST

uncritical undemanding unfussy

WEAK

indifferent indiscriminating uncareful uncouth

ADJECTIVE

finicky

Synonyms

STRONGEST

choosy fastidious fussy scrupulous squeamish

WEAK

critical dainty difficult finical finicking fussbudget hard to please nice nit-picking persnickety picky stickling

Antonyms

STRONGEST

uncritical undemanding unfussy

WEAK

easy open

ADJECTIVE

inkhorn

Synonyms

WEAK

abstruse academic arid bookish didactic doctrinaire donnish dry dull egotistic erudite formal formalistic fussy hairsplitting learned literary nit-picking ostentatious particular pedagogic pedantical pompous priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious stilted

ADJECTIVE

pedantic

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abstruse pompous stilted

WEAK

academic arid didactic doctrinaire donnish dry dull egotistic erudite formal fussy hairsplitting learned nit-picking ostentatious particular pedagogic priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious

Antonyms

STRONGEST

plain simple

WEAK

imprecise informal

ADJECTIVE

pedantical

Synonyms

WEAK

abstruse academic arid bookish didactic doctrinaire donnish dry dull egotistic erudite formal formalistic fussy hairsplitting inkhorn learned literary nit-picking ostentatious particular pedagogic pompous priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious stilted

ADJECTIVE

precious

Synonyms

WEAK

affected alembicated artful artificial chichi choosy dainty delicate fastidious finicky fragile fussy la-di-da nice ostentatious overrefined particular persnickety precieux pretentious refined showy stagy studied

Antonyms

WEAK

cheap common defective deficient disfavored impaired inexpensive useless valueless worthless

ADJECTIVE

prissy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

prudish squeamish

WEAK

Victorian epicene fastidious finicky genteel goody-goody goody-two-shoes pansified persnickety picky precious prim prim and proper puritanical sissified sissy stickling strait-laced stuffy tight-laced

Antonyms

WEAK

informal unconcerned

ADJECTIVE

prudish

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fastidious narrow-minded prissy puritanical squeamish uptight

WEAK

Victorian affected artificial austere bigoted conventional demure finicky genteel illiberal mincing narrow offish overexact overmodest precise pretentious priggish prim proper rigid rigorous scrupulous severe simpering square starchy stern stiff stilted strait-laced stuffy

Antonyms

WEAK

bold brave extroverted outgoing

Example Sentences

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Suetonius recorded that Julius Caesar was “somewhat overnice in the care of his person,” and Elizabethan courtiers sported particolored slashed sleeves, but the dandy is a modern, urban phenomenon.

From The Wall Street Journal

Not an overnice job," he told himself, "but then it's part of farming work.

From Project Gutenberg

Overnice.—One can even become overnice as regards the clearness of concepts.

From Project Gutenberg

What was she trying to say with her dark hints and overnice scruples of a Puritan conscience?

From Project Gutenberg

They are a species of the "overnice," forming a class of their own, as I told Queen Christine of Sweden, one day: "They are the Jansenists of love."

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overnice

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