Exact Match:
Synonyms:
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- artificial,
- chichi,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- formalistic,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- hairsplitting,
- hypercritical,
- hyperelegant,
- hypersensitive,
- la-di-da,
- mannered,
- mincing,
- morbidly sensitive,
- namby-pamby,
- overconscientious,
- overcritical,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensitive,
- oversqueamish,
- pedantic,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- puristic,
- simpering,
- studied,
- ultracritical,
- unnatural
Related Words:
- careful,
- conscientious,
- fastidious,
- hairsplitting,
- hypercritical,
- hypersensitive,
- meticulous,
- morbidly sensitive,
- nice,
- overcritical,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overnice,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensitive,
- oversqueamish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- religious,
- scrupulous,
- strict,
- tender-conscienced,
- ultracritical
- hypercritical
collapse - inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" related words >
- captious,
- carping,
- caviling,
- censorious,
- critic,
- critical,
- cynical,
- faultfinding,
- hairsplitting,
- hypersensitive,
- morbidly sensitive,
- nagging,
- niggling,
- overconscientious,
- overcritical,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overnice,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensitive,
- oversqueamish,
- pettifogging,
- quibbling,
- trichoschistic,
- ultracritical
- euphemistic
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- of an inoffensive substitute for offensive terminology; "`peepee' is a common euphemistic term" related words >
- affected,
- dainty,
- dandyish,
- delicate,
- effeminate,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- foppish,
- formalistic,
- fussy,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- la-di-da,
- namby-pamby,
- nice,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- particular,
- pedantic,
- pernickety,
- persnickety,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- puristic,
- put-on,
- simpering,
- squeamish,
- stilted,
- too-too
- captious,
- carping,
- caviling,
- cavilling,
- censorious,
- critic,
- critical,
- cynical,
- demanding,
- difficult,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- faultfinding,
- finicky,
- fussy,
- hair-splitting,
- hairsplitting,
- harsh,
- hypercritical,
- hypersensitive,
- morbidly sensitive,
- nagging,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- overconscientious,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overnice,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensitive,
- oversqueamish,
- pettifogging,
- picayune,
- picky,
- querulous,
- quibbling,
- severe,
- small,
- small-minded,
- trichoschistic,
- ultracritical
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- delicate,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- goosy,
- hairsplitting,
- high-strung,
- hypercritical,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- miffy,
- morbidly sensitive,
- nervous,
- overconscientious,
- overcritical,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overnice,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- oversqueamish,
- overtender,
- passible,
- prickly,
- refined,
- responsive,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- temperamental,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- ultracritical
- oversensitive
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- unduly sensitive or thin-skinned related words >
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- delicate,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- goosy,
- hairsplitting,
- high-strung,
- hypercritical,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- miffy,
- morbidly sensitive,
- nervous,
- overconscientious,
- overcritical,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overnice,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensible,
- oversqueamish,
- overtender,
- passible,
- prickly,
- refined,
- responsive,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- temperamental,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- ultracritical
- mannered
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- having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- allusive,
- artificial,
- behaved,
- behavioral,
- behaviored,
- behaviorist,
- behavioristic,
- conscious,
- contrived,
- demeanored,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- euphuistic,
- figurative,
- figured,
- flowery,
- high-hat,
- highfalutin,
- histrionic,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperelegant,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- la-di-da,
- maniere,
- metaphorical,
- ornamented,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- pompous,
- posed,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretentious,
- pseudo,
- referential,
- stagy,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- studied,
- theatrical,
- trolatitious,
- tropological,
- unnatural
- formalistic
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- concerned with or characterized by rigorous or adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art); "highly formalized plays like `Waiting for Godot'" related words >
- accordant,
- anal,
- bourgeois,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- corresponding,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- extrinsic,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formulary,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- harmonious,
- impersonal,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- kosher,
- legalistic,
- mincing,
- namby-pamby,
- nominal,
- orthodox,
- outward,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- pedantic,
- plastic,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- puristic,
- simpering,
- square,
- straight,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- traditionalist,
- uptight
- studied
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- produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation; "a studied smile"; "a note of biting irony and studied insult"- V.L.Parrington related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- advised,
- affected,
- aforethought,
- aimed,
- aimed at,
- artificial,
- calculated,
- conscious,
- considered,
- contemplated,
- contrived,
- deliberate,
- deliberated,
- designed,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- envisaged,
- envisioned,
- euphuistic,
- feigned,
- forced,
- hyperelegant,
- intended,
- intentional,
- knowing,
- labored,
- mannered,
- meant,
- meditated,
- of design,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- planned,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- premeditated,
- prepense,
- pretentious,
- projected,
- proposed,
- purposed,
- purposeful,
- purposive,
- reasoned,
- studious,
- teleological,
- thought-out,
- thoughtful,
- unnatural,
- voluntary,
- weighed,
- well-thought-out,
- willful,
- willing,
- witting
- chichi
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- someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way
- affectedly trendy and fashionable related words >
- affected,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- busy,
- dandiacal,
- dandified,
- dandyish,
- daring,
- dashing,
- dressy,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- exhibitionistic,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- foppish,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- fussy,
- gallant,
- gay,
- glittering,
- high-wrought,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- la-di-da,
- labored,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- moresque,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- picturesque,
- precieux,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- rakish,
- rich,
- rococo,
- showy,
- snazzy,
- splashy,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- swank,
- ultrafashionable,
- ultrasmart,
- ultrastylish
- Lord Fauntleroy,
- Pecksniffian,
- Percy,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- Victorian,
- affected,
- bluenose,
- canting,
- chicken,
- cream puff,
- effeminate,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- false,
- formalistic,
- goody,
- goody good-good,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritic,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- lily,
- mealymouthed,
- mid-Victorian,
- milksop,
- mincing,
- mollycoddle,
- namby-pamby,
- nance,
- nancy,
- oily,
- old maid,
- old woman,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- pantywaist,
- pedantic,
- pharisaic,
- pharisean,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- prig,
- prude,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- simon-pure,
- simpering,
- sissy,
- sniveling,
- unctuous,
- weak sister
- 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
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- arabesque,
- artificial,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- busy,
- chichi,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- frilly,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- hyperelegant,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- studied,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- unnatural
- Sabbatarian,
- bigoted,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- conscientious,
- creedbound,
- critical,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dogmatic,
- dour,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- evangelical,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exquisite,
- fastidious,
- firm,
- formalistic,
- fundamentalist,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- methodical,
- meticulous,
- mincing,
- muscle-bound,
- namby-pamby,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orderly,
- orthodox,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- particular,
- pedantic,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- procrustean,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- simpering,
- staunch,
- stiff,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding
- overrefined
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- excessively delicate or refined related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- apparently sound,
- artificial,
- casuistic,
- chichi,
- colorable,
- deceptive,
- delicate,
- disingenuous,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- empty,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- fallacious,
- formalistic,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- goosy,
- hairsplitting,
- hollow,
- hypercritical,
- hyperelegant,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- illusive,
- insincere,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jesuitic,
- la-di-da,
- mannered,
- mincing,
- morbidly sensitive,
- namby-pamby,
- nervous,
- overconscientious,
- overcritical,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overnice,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- oversqueamish,
- oversubtle,
- overtender,
- passible,
- pedantic,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- prickly,
- puristic,
- refined,
- responsive,
- sensitive,
- simpering,
- skittish,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- studied,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- ultracritical,
- unnatural
- artificial
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- artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
- contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
- not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- colorable,
- colored,
- concocted,
- contrived,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cute,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- euphuistic,
- fabricated,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- fashioned,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- forced,
- garbled,
- goody-goody,
- high-sounding,
- histrionic,
- hollow,
- hyperelegant,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- insincere,
- junky,
- la-di-da,
- labored,
- made,
- made-up,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- manufactured,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- mock,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- painted,
- papier-mache,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plastic,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pretentious,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quaint,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simpering,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- stagy,
- studied,
- substitute,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- theatrical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped
- pretentious
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- making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- artificial,
- arty,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- chichi,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- feigned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-hat,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- histrionic,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperelegant,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- put-on,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- snobbish,
- snotty,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- stagy,
- stilted,
- studied,
- superficial,
- swank,
- swollen,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tony,
- too-too,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unnatural,
- utopian,
- vainglorious,
- vaunting,
- visionary,
- windy
- hairsplitting
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- making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously" related words >
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- contradistinction,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- delicate,
- demarcation,
- differentiation,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- distinguishment,
- division,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- fencing,
- finespun,
- flak,
- hairline,
- hedging,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- hypersensitive,
- hypersensitivity,
- imputation,
- knock,
- logic-chopping,
- microscopic distinction,
- morbid sensibility,
- morbidly sensitive,
- nagging,
- nice,
- nice distinction,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nuance,
- obloquy,
- overconscientious,
- overconscientiousness,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- overfastidious,
- overfastidiousness,
- overmeticulous,
- overmeticulousness,
- overnice,
- overniceness,
- overnicety,
- overparticular,
- overparticularity,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overrefinement,
- overscrupulous,
- overscrupulousness,
- oversensitive,
- oversensitivity,
- oversqueamish,
- oversqueamishness,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pestering,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevarication,
- priggishness,
- pussyfooting,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- refined,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- segregation,
- separation,
- shade of difference,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- slam,
- stricture,
- subterfuge,
- subtle,
- subtle distinction,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- ultracritical
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- academic,
- accordant,
- affected,
- anal,
- arid,
- bedizened,
- bibliophagic,
- big-sounding,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- bookish,
- booky,
- bourgeois,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- convoluted,
- corresponding,
- declamatory,
- devoted to studies,
- didactic,
- diligent,
- doctrinaire,
- donnish,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- erudite,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exact,
- exquisite,
- extrinsic,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicky,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- hair-splitting,
- harmonious,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- impersonal,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- inkhorn,
- kosher,
- labyrinthine,
- learned,
- legalistic,
- lexiphanic,
- literary,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mandarin,
- meretricious,
- meticulous,
- mincing,
- namby-pamby,
- nit-picking,
- nominal,
- orotund,
- orthodox,
- ostentatious,
- outward,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- overwrought,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
- pedantical,
- perfectionist,
- plastic,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- preceptorial,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- professorial,
- professorlike,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- quibbling,
- rabbinic,
- rhetorical,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolish,
- schoolmastering,
- schoolmasterish,
- schoolmasterlike,
- schoolmasterly,
- schoolmistressy,
- schoolteacherish,
- schoolteachery,
- scrupulous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- simpering,
- sonorous,
- square,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- straight,
- studious,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- tall,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- tortuous,
- traditionalist,
- tutorial,
- uptight,
- vain
- Milquetoast,
- baby,
- banal,
- bathetic,
- bathos,
- beery,
- betwixt and between,
- big baby,
- bland,
- bleeding heart,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cheap-jack,
- chicken,
- cloying,
- cloyingness,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- crybaby,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- doormat,
- driveling,
- dull,
- dull tool,
- effeminate,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- flat,
- flimsy,
- formalistic,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- goo,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- gooey,
- gossamery,
- gushing,
- gutless wonder,
- hearts-and-flowers,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- innocuous,
- insipid,
- invertebrate,
- jejune,
- jellyfish,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lackluster,
- light,
- lightweight,
- maudlin,
- maudlinness,
- mawkish,
- mawkishness,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- meek soul,
- middling,
- milk-and-water,
- milksop,
- mincing,
- moderate,
- modest,
- mollycoddle,
- mush,
- mushiness,
- mushy,
- namby-pambyism,
- namby-pambyness,
- nebbish,
- nonentity,
- nostalgia,
- nostalgic,
- nostomania,
- nostomanic,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- oversentimental,
- oversentimentalism,
- oversentimentality,
- oversentimentalized,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- papery,
- passable,
- pasteboardy,
- pedantic,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- puny,
- puristic,
- pushover,
- respectable,
- romantic,
- romanticism,
- sad sack,
- sapless,
- sappy,
- sentiment,
- sentimental,
- sentimentalism,
- sentimentality,
- sentimentalized,
- shattery,
- simpering,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- slop,
- sloppiness,
- sloppy,
- slush,
- so-so,
- soap opera,
- sob story,
- soft,
- softling,
- softy,
- sop,
- sticky,
- sweetness and light,
- tacky,
- tear-jerking,
- tearjerker,
- teary,
- tedious,
- tolerable,
- unsubstantial,
- vapid,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- wishy-washy,
- wispy,
- womanish
- unnatural
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- not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- affected,
- amorphous,
- anomalistic,
- anomalous,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bent,
- bestial,
- bizarre,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- callous,
- calloused,
- cold,
- cold of heart,
- coldblooded,
- coldhearted,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contrived,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- different,
- distorted,
- divergent,
- dotty,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- eccentric,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- erratic,
- ersatz,
- euphuistic,
- exceptional,
- extraordinary,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- fey,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flaky,
- flinthearted,
- forced,
- formless,
- freakish,
- funny,
- garbled,
- grotesque,
- hard,
- hard of heart,
- hardened,
- hardhearted,
- heartless,
- heteroclite,
- heteromorphic,
- histrionic,
- hyperelegant,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- improper,
- insensitive,
- insincere,
- irregular,
- junky,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- la-di-da,
- labored,
- maggoty,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- mock,
- monstrous,
- nutty,
- obdurate,
- odd,
- oddball,
- out of character,
- outlandish,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- peculiar,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretended,
- pretentious,
- preternatural,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- quirky,
- restrained,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- self-conscious,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shapeless,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- singular,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- stagy,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stonyhearted,
- strange,
- stray,
- straying,
- studied,
- subnormal,
- supernatural,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- theatrical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- tribadistic,
- twisted,
- unaccountable,
- unauthentic,
- uncanny,
- uncharacteristic,
- unconventional,
- unexpected,
- unfeeling,
- ungenuine,
- unmerciful,
- unreal,
- unresponsive,
- unseemly,
- unusual,
- wacky,
- wandering,
- warped,
- weird,
- whimsical
- precious
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- of high worth or cost; "diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds are precious stones"
- extremely; "there is precious little time left" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- absolute,
- admired,
- adored,
- affected,
- alembicated,
- angel,
- arrant,
- artful,
- artificial,
- babe,
- baby,
- baby-doll,
- beloved,
- beyond price,
- buttercup,
- cherished,
- cherub,
- chichi,
- chick,
- chickabiddy,
- choice,
- choosy,
- classical,
- complete,
- consummate,
- costly,
- crass,
- darling,
- dear,
- dearly beloved,
- deary,
- decided,
- definitive,
- doll,
- downright,
- duck,
- duckling,
- effete,
- egregious,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- esteemed,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exact,
- expensive,
- exquisite,
- fastidious,
- favorite,
- finicky,
- flagrant,
- formalistic,
- fussy,
- glaring,
- golden,
- good as gold,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- gross,
- hallowed,
- held dear,
- high-priced,
- hon,
- honey,
- honey bunch,
- honey child,
- hyperelegant,
- idolized,
- inestimable,
- intolerable,
- invaluable,
- irreplaceable,
- la-di-da,
- lamb,
- lambkin,
- love,
- loved,
- lover,
- mannered,
- methodical,
- meticulous,
- mincing,
- namby-pamby,
- nice,
- of great price,
- orderly,
- ostentatious,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- particular,
- pedantic,
- perfect,
- persnickety,
- pet,
- petkins,
- picky,
- popular,
- positive,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious heart,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- priceless,
- pricey,
- prized,
- profound,
- pronounced,
- proper,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- rank,
- rare,
- recherche,
- regular,
- revered,
- rich,
- scrupulous,
- shattering,
- shocking,
- showy,
- simpering,
- snookums,
- sophisticated,
- squeamish,
- stark,
- stark-staring,
- studied,
- sugar,
- superlative,
- surpassing,
- sweet,
- sweetheart,
- sweetie,
- sweetkins,
- sweets,
- the veriest,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- total,
- treasured,
- unbearable,
- unconscionable,
- undeniable,
- unequivocal,
- unmitigated,
- unnatural,
- unqualified,
- unrelieved,
- unspoiled,
- utter,
- valuable,
- valued,
- venerable,
- venerated,
- well-beloved,
- well-liked,
- white-haired,
- worthy
- affected
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- acted upon; influenced
- speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- afflicted,
- agonized,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- attacked,
- awkward,
- bastard,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- canting,
- chichi,
- colorable,
- colored,
- concerned,
- contrived,
- convoluted,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- declamatory,
- devoured by,
- diseased,
- distorted,
- distressed,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elevated,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- euphuistic,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- garbled,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gripped,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionic,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- hurt,
- hyperelegant,
- hypocritical,
- illegitimate,
- imbued with,
- imitation,
- implicated,
- impressed,
- impressed with,
- influenced,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- involved,
- junky,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- mealymouthed,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- mock,
- moved,
- obsessed,
- obsessed by,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- penetrated with,
- perverted,
- pharisaic,
- phony,
- pietistic,
- pinchbeck,
- pious,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretended,
- pretentious,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- racked,
- rhetorical,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- seized,
- seized with,
- self-conscious,
- self-righteous,
- self-styled,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- simulated,
- sniveling,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- sonorous,
- specious,
- spurious,
- stagy,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stirred,
- stricken,
- struck,
- studied,
- supposititious,
- swayed,
- synthetic,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- torn,
- tortuous,
- tortured,
- touched,
- troubled,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- unctuous,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- upset,
- warped,
- wracked
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