Exact Match:
- nitpicker
- someone who makes small and unjustified criticisms
Synonyms:
- belittler,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- common scold,
- critic,
- criticizer,
- equivocator,
- faultfinder,
- frondeur,
- hairsplitter,
- hedger,
- momus,
- mystificator,
- mystifier,
- obscurantist,
- palterer,
- perfectionist,
- pettifogger,
- picayune critic,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- prevaricator,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooter,
- quibbler,
- scold,
- shuffler,
- smellfungus,
- stickler,
- tergiversator
Related Words:
- quibbler
collapse - a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections related words >
- belittler,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- common scold,
- critic,
- criticizer,
- equivocator,
- faultfinder,
- frondeur,
- hairsplitter,
- hedger,
- momus,
- mystificator,
- mystifier,
- nitpicker,
- obscurantist,
- palterer,
- pettifogger,
- picayune critic,
- prevaricator,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooter,
- scold,
- shuffler,
- smellfungus,
- tergiversator
- Ananias,
- Baron Munchausen,
- Father of Lies,
- Satan,
- Sir John Mandeville,
- captious critic,
- caviler,
- consummate liar,
- dirty liar,
- equivocator,
- fabricator,
- fabulist,
- false witness,
- falsifier,
- fibber,
- fibster,
- habitual liar,
- hairsplitter,
- hedger,
- liar,
- mystificator,
- mystifier,
- mythomaniac,
- nitpicker,
- obscurantist,
- palterer,
- pathological liar,
- perjurer,
- pettifogger,
- picayune critic,
- pseudologist,
- pseudologue,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooter,
- quibbler,
- shuffler,
- spinner of yarns,
- storyteller,
- tergiversator,
- yarn spinner,
- yarner
- stickler
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- someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness" related words >
- Simon Legree,
- absolute monarch,
- absolute ruler,
- all-powerful ruler,
- arrogator,
- ass,
- autarch,
- autocrat,
- bigot,
- bitter-ender,
- bullethead,
- caesar,
- captious critic,
- commissar,
- czar,
- despot,
- dictator,
- diehard,
- disciplinarian,
- dogmatist,
- donkey,
- driver,
- duce,
- fanatic,
- hard master,
- hardnose,
- intransigeant,
- intransigent,
- last-ditcher,
- martinet,
- maverick,
- mule,
- nitpicker,
- oligarch,
- oppressor,
- perfectionist,
- perverse fool,
- pharaoh,
- pighead,
- positivist,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- purist,
- slave driver,
- standpat,
- standpatter,
- tyrant,
- usurper,
- warlord
- agitator,
- anarch,
- anarchist,
- belittler,
- bellyacher,
- brawler,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- common scold,
- complainant,
- complainer,
- crab,
- crank,
- critic,
- criticizer,
- croaker,
- extremist,
- faultfinder,
- griper,
- grouch,
- grouser,
- growler,
- grumbler,
- insubordinate,
- insurgent,
- insurrectionary,
- insurrectionist,
- insurrecto,
- kicker,
- kvetch,
- malcontent,
- maverick,
- momus,
- murmurer,
- mutineer,
- mutterer,
- nitpicker,
- nonconformist,
- pettifogger,
- querulous person,
- quibbler,
- reactionary,
- reactionist,
- rebel,
- revolter,
- revolutionary,
- revolutionist,
- rioter,
- scold,
- smellfungus,
- sorehead,
- subversive,
- traitor,
- whiner
- Babbitt,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- anal character,
- bluestocking,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- captious critic,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exact,
- exquisite,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- methodical,
- methodologist,
- meticulous,
- middle-class type,
- mincing,
- model child,
- namby-pamby,
- nitpicker,
- orderly,
- organization man,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- pedantic,
- perfectionist,
- plastic person,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puristic,
- scrupulous,
- sheep,
- simpering,
- square,
- stickler,
- teenybopper,
- traditionalist,
- trimmer,
- yes-man
- Philadelphia lawyer,
- ambulance chaser,
- belittler,
- bunco artist,
- bunco steerer,
- captious critic,
- cardsharp,
- cardsharper,
- carper,
- carpetbagger,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- common scold,
- con artist,
- con man,
- confidence man,
- crimp,
- critic,
- criticizer,
- equivocator,
- faultfinder,
- frondeur,
- hairsplitter,
- hedger,
- horse coper,
- horse trader,
- jackleg,
- land pirate,
- land shark,
- land-grabber,
- momus,
- mortgage shark,
- mystificator,
- mystifier,
- nitpicker,
- obscurantist,
- palterer,
- picayune critic,
- pitchman,
- prevaricator,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooter,
- quibbler,
- scold,
- shark,
- sharp,
- sharper,
- sharpie,
- shortchanger,
- shuffler,
- shyster,
- slicker,
- smellfungus,
- spieler,
- tergiversator
- perfectionist
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- a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards related words >
- Babbitt,
- Leibnizian,
- Leibnizian optimist,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- Pollyanna,
- anal character,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- bourgeois,
- bright,
- burgher,
- captious critic,
- censorious,
- cheerful,
- chiliast,
- chiliastic,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conscientious,
- conventionalist,
- couleur de rose,
- critical,
- demanding,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- formalist,
- fuss-budget,
- fusspot,
- fussy,
- hopeful,
- hoper,
- irrepressible optimist,
- methodologist,
- meticulous,
- middle-class type,
- millenarian,
- millennialist,
- millennialistic,
- millennian,
- model child,
- nit-picking,
- nitpicker,
- obsessive,
- optimist,
- optimistic,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- particular,
- pedant,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionistic,
- philosophical optimist,
- picky,
- plastic person,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- priggish,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- ray of sunshine,
- rose-colored,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- sheep,
- square,
- stickler,
- strict,
- sunny,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- upbeat,
- utopian,
- yes-man
- censor
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- a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
- someone who censures or condemns
- subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government" related words >
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- annotator,
- asphyxiate,
- belittler,
- black out,
- bleach,
- blip,
- blot out,
- blue-pencil,
- bottle up,
- bowdlerize,
- cancel,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censurer,
- choke off,
- clamp down on,
- clean up,
- cognoscente,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- common scold,
- connoisseur,
- conscience,
- conscientiousness,
- cork,
- cork up,
- crack down on,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- cross out,
- crush,
- cut,
- cut out,
- damp down,
- delete,
- drown,
- edit,
- edit out,
- editor,
- erase,
- ethical self,
- excise,
- expunge,
- expurgate,
- extinguish,
- faultfinder,
- frondeur,
- gag,
- grace,
- hold down,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- inner arbiter,
- inward monitor,
- jump on,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- kill,
- literary critic,
- man of letters,
- momus,
- monopolist,
- moral censor,
- muckraker,
- muffle,
- muzzle,
- narrow,
- nitpicker,
- omit,
- pettifogger,
- pour water on,
- protectionist,
- purge,
- purify,
- put down,
- quash,
- quell,
- quench,
- quibbler,
- repress,
- rescind,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- restrictionist,
- reviewer,
- rub out,
- scholiast,
- scold,
- screen,
- shush,
- shut down on,
- silence,
- sit down on,
- sit on,
- smash,
- smellfungus,
- smother,
- social conscience,
- social critic,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stanch,
- stifle,
- strangle,
- strike,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- stultify,
- subdue,
- suffocate,
- superego,
- suppress,
- tender conscience,
- textual critic,
- throttle,
- twinge of conscience,
- voice of conscience,
- void
- scold
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- someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault related words >
- Xanthippe,
- admonish,
- amazon,
- baste,
- battle-ax,
- bawl out,
- beldam,
- belittler,
- berate,
- bitch,
- blame,
- blister,
- brace,
- bring to book,
- cackle,
- call,
- call to account,
- captious critic,
- carol,
- carper,
- carpet,
- castigate,
- cat,
- caviler,
- caw,
- censor,
- censure,
- censurer,
- chastise,
- chatter,
- cheep,
- chew,
- chew out,
- chide,
- chirk,
- chirp,
- chirr,
- chirrup,
- chitter,
- chuck,
- clack,
- cluck,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- common scold,
- coo,
- correct,
- critic,
- criticize,
- criticizer,
- croak,
- cronk,
- crow,
- cuckoo,
- denounce,
- dress down,
- drum,
- excoriate,
- execrate,
- faultfinder,
- fishwife,
- frondeur,
- fury,
- gabble,
- gaggle,
- gobble,
- grill,
- grouch,
- grouse,
- grunt,
- guggle,
- harass,
- harpy,
- harridan,
- have words with,
- honk,
- hoo,
- hoot,
- hound,
- jaw,
- lash,
- lecture,
- mob,
- momus,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- nag,
- nitpicker,
- objurgate,
- ogress,
- peep,
- pettifogger,
- pip,
- pipe,
- quack,
- quibbler,
- rag,
- rail,
- rant,
- rate,
- ream out,
- rebuke,
- reprehend,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- reprobate,
- reprove,
- revile,
- roll,
- row,
- set down,
- set straight,
- she-devil,
- she-wolf,
- shrew,
- sing,
- smellfungus,
- spank,
- spitfire,
- squawk,
- straighten out,
- take down,
- take to task,
- tell off,
- termagant,
- tigress,
- tongue,
- tongue-lash,
- trill,
- tweet,
- twit,
- twitter,
- upbraid,
- virago,
- vituperate,
- vixen,
- warble,
- whistle,
- wig,
- witch
- critic
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- someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments
- anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something
- a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art related words >
- advertising writer,
- aficionado,
- allegorist,
- amateur,
- annalist,
- annotator,
- arbiter,
- arbiter elegantiarum,
- arbiter of taste,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- authority,
- belittler,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- bon vivant,
- book reviewer,
- buff,
- captious,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- carping,
- caviler,
- caviling,
- censor,
- censorious,
- censurer,
- cicerone,
- clarifier,
- coauthor,
- cognoscente,
- collaborator,
- collector,
- columnist,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- common scold,
- compiler,
- complainer,
- composer,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- cryptanalyst,
- cryptographer,
- cryptologist,
- dance critic,
- decoder,
- definer,
- demonstrator,
- demythologizer,
- diarist,
- diaskeuast,
- dilettante,
- disparager,
- dragoman,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- editor,
- editorial writer,
- editorialist,
- emendator,
- emender,
- encyclopedist,
- epicure,
- epicurean,
- essayist,
- euhemerist,
- exegesist,
- exegete,
- exegetist,
- expert,
- explainer,
- explicator,
- exponent,
- expositor,
- expounder,
- fan,
- faultfinder,
- faultfinding,
- freak,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- frondeur,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- glossarist,
- glossographer,
- go-between,
- good judge,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- guide,
- hermeneut,
- humorist,
- hypercritical,
- inditer,
- interpreter,
- judge,
- knocker,
- leader writer,
- lexicographer,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- maven,
- metaphrast,
- momus,
- monographer,
- muckraker,
- mudslinger,
- music critic,
- news analyst,
- newspaperman,
- nitpicker,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- nut,
- oneirocritic,
- overcritical,
- pamphleteer,
- paraphrast,
- penwoman,
- pettifogger,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- publicist,
- pundit,
- quibbler,
- refined palate,
- reviewer,
- savant,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scholar,
- scholiast,
- scold,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- smellfungus,
- social critic,
- specialist,
- storyteller,
- technical expert,
- technical writer,
- technician,
- textual critic,
- translator,
- virtuoso,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer
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