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fastidious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fastidious

hard to please

He is very fastidious about how he arranges his collection, and woe to anyone who dares to mess around with it.

Synonyms of fastidious

choosy (or choosey), dainty, delicate, demanding, exacting, finical, finicking, finicky, fussbudgety, fussy, nice, particular, persnickety, picky

Words Related to fastidious

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 fastidious

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

flexible, lax, loose

lenient, permissive

indiscriminating, undiscriminating

Antonyms of fastidious

undemanding, unfastidious, unfussy

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