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- careful,
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collapse - inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" related words >
- captious,
- carping,
- caviling,
- censorious,
- critic,
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- faultfinding,
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- unduly sensitive or thin-skinned related words >
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- delicate,
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- goosy,
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- morbidly sensitive,
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- nagging,
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- nit-picking,
- overconscientious,
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- overprecise,
- overrefined,
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- oversensitive,
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- picayune,
- picky,
- querulous,
- quibbling,
- severe,
- small,
- small-minded,
- trichoschistic,
- ultracritical
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- artificial,
- chichi,
- elaborate,
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- 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
- punctual
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- acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed; "she expected guests to be punctual at meals"; "he is not a particularly punctual person"; "punctual payment" related words >
- accurate,
- active,
- alert,
- apt,
- attentive,
- careful,
- close,
- compliant,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- constant,
- correct,
- critical,
- decisive,
- delicate,
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- detailed,
- devoted,
- devout,
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- loyal,
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- on the dot,
- on time,
- overconscientious,
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- painstaking,
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- overconscientious,
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- true
- conscientious
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- characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"
- guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice" related words >
- accurate,
- active,
- attentive,
- careful,
- cautious,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- circumspect,
- close,
- compliant,
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- constant,
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- high-minded,
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- overconscientious,
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- priggish,
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- tender-conscienced,
- thorough,
- true,
- upright,
- upstanding
- overrefined
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- excessively delicate or refined related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- apparently sound,
- artificial,
- casuistic,
- chichi,
- colorable,
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- hypersensitive,
- illusive,
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- overcritical,
- overelaborate,
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- overfastidious,
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- overnice,
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- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- ultracritical,
- unnatural
- fastidious
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- giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
- having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" related words >
- accurate,
- appreciative,
- bleached,
- bright,
- careful,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- civilized,
- clean,
- cleanly,
- conscientious,
- critical,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- differential,
- difficult,
- dirt-free,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- elegant,
- exact,
- exacting,
- fair,
- fine,
- finical,
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- fresh,
- fussy,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gracious,
- hypercritical,
- immaculate,
- kosher,
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- nice,
- nit-picking,
- nonpolluted,
- of cleanly habits,
- overconscientious,
- overscrupulous,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- polished,
- precise,
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- priggish,
- prudish,
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- pure,
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- refined,
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- shiny,
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- sophisticated,
- spotless,
- squeamish,
- stainless,
- strict,
- subtle,
- sweet,
- tactful,
- tahar,
- tender-conscienced,
- tubbed,
- unadulterated,
- unbesmirched,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- undefiled,
- unmuddied,
- unpolluted,
- unsmirched,
- unsmudged,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- well-scrubbed,
- well-washed,
- white,
- whitened
- careful
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- exercising caution or showing care or attention; "they were careful when crossing the busy street"; "be careful to keep her shoes clean"; "did very careful research"; "careful art restorers"; "careful of the rights of others"; "careful about one's behavior"
- with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed"
- mindful of the future in spending money; "careful with money"
- cautiously attentive; "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of his father's advice"
- full of cares or anxiety; "Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-Luke 10.41 related words >
- Scotch,
- accurate,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
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- calculating,
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- economic,
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- enlightened,
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- finical,
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- forehanded,
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- frugal,
- fussy,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- labor-saving,
- leaving out nothing,
- loving,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- money-saving,
- nice,
- niggling,
- noncommittal,
- observant,
- observing,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overconscientious,
- overlooking no possibility,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- parsimonious,
- particular,
- pawky,
- penny-wise,
- politic,
- precise,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- religious,
- safe,
- saving,
- scrimping,
- scrupulous,
- skimping,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- spare,
- sparing,
- strict,
- studied,
- systematic,
- tender,
- tender-conscienced,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- unwasteful,
- vigilant,
- wary,
- watchful,
- well-advised,
- well-judged
- meticulous
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- marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"
- marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette" related words >
- OK,
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- absolute,
- accurate,
- active,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- all right,
- assiduous,
- astringent,
- attentive,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- aware,
- careful,
- cautious,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- close,
- compliant,
- concentrated,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- conscious,
- constant,
- correct,
- critical,
- dead right,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diligent,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dour,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- faithful,
- fastidious,
- faultless,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
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- flawless,
- full,
- fussy,
- grim,
- harsh,
- heedful,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- just,
- just right,
- letter-perfect,
- loyal,
- methodical,
- microscopic,
- mindful,
- minute,
- narrow,
- nice,
- niggling,
- observant,
- observing,
- okay,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- orderly,
- overconscientious,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- particular,
- perfect,
- perfectionist,
- perfectionistic,
- pernickety,
- picayune,
- picky,
- practicing,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- proper,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- right,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rugged,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- special,
- specific,
- stern,
- straight,
- straight-up-and-down,
- strict,
- stringent,
- subtle,
- tender-conscienced,
- thorough,
- tough,
- true,
- unsparing,
- watchful
- 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
- scrupulous
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- having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; "less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance" related words >
- Pyrrhonic,
- accurate,
- active,
- agnostic,
- analyze,
- attentive,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- canvass,
- careful,
- case,
- cautious,
- censorious,
- check over,
- check up,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- close,
- comb,
- compliant,
- con,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- consider,
- constant,
- contemplate,
- correct,
- critical,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- demurring,
- detailed,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diffident,
- dig into,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dissect,
- distrustful,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- ethical,
- exact,
- exacting,
- examine,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- eye,
- eyeball,
- fair-minded,
- faithful,
- faltering,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- from Missouri,
- fussy,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- high-minded,
- honest,
- honorable,
- in doubt,
- inspect,
- just,
- leery,
- look over,
- loyal,
- methodical,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- minute,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- modest,
- moral,
- narrow,
- neat,
- nice,
- obedient,
- observant,
- orderly,
- overconscientious,
- overlook,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- particular,
- penetrate,
- perfectionistic,
- perlustrate,
- peruse,
- picky,
- pierce,
- pore over,
- practicing,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- principled,
- probe,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- qualmish,
- questioning,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- respectful,
- right,
- righteous,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- scan,
- scrutinize,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skeptical,
- squeamish,
- stickling,
- strict,
- study,
- subtle,
- survey,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tender-conscienced,
- true,
- uncertain,
- untrusting,
- upstanding,
- vet,
- view,
- wary,
- watch,
- weigh
- religious
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- a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
- having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity; "a religious man"; "religious attitude"
- concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"
- extremely scrupulous and conscientious; "religious in observing the rules of health" related words >
- Christian,
- Christianlike,
- Christianly,
- God-fearing,
- Mariological,
- abbacomes,
- abbot,
- accurate,
- adoring,
- anthropomorphic,
- anthropotheistic,
- ascetic,
- attentive,
- awesome,
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- mandarin,
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- nominal,
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- overwrought,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
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- scrupulous,
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- surface,
- tall,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- tortuous,
- traditionalist,
- tutorial,
- uptight,
- vain
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