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choosy

adjective

variants: or choosey

Synonyms and Antonyms of choosy

1 hard to please

a choosy dog who refuses all but the fanciest food

Synonyms of choosy

dainty, delicate, demanding, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussbudgety, fussy, nice, particular, persnickety, picky

Words Related to choosy

discerning, discriminating, selective

insightful, knowledgeable

captious, carping, caviling (or cavilling), critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical

careful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulous

queasy (also queazy), squeamish

peevish, petulant, prickly, touchy

Near Antonyms of choosy

affable, breezy, carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, lackadaisical, laid-back, low-pressure, relaxed

flexible, lax, loose

lenient, permissive

indiscriminating, undiscriminating

Antonyms of choosy

undemanding, unfastidious, unfussy

2 tending to select carefully

a choosy man when it came to clothes for the office

Synonyms of choosy

particular, picky, selective

Words Related to choosy

fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy

discerning, discriminating, judicious

Near Antonyms of choosy

indiscriminate, indiscriminating

Antonyms of choosy

nonselective, unselective

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