Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Fastidiousness

Nouns
  • fastidiousness etc. adj.
  • nicety, hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, epicurism, gourmet. [Excess of delicacy] prudery.
Verbs
  • be fastidious etc. adj.
  • have a sweet tooth. mince the matter
  • turn up one's nose at etc. (disdain) Contempt
  • look a gift horse in the mouth, see spots on the sun.
Adjectives
  • fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal [Vulg.], difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned
  • squeasy, queasy
  • hard to please, difficult to please
  • querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous
  • censorious etc. Disapprobation
  • hypercritical
  • overcritical.