Thesaurus
old-maidish
Synonyms and Antonyms of old-maidish
- an old-maidish teacher who required that every essay be written in very formal English
choosy (or choosey), dainty, delicate, demanding, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussbudgety, fussy, nice, particular, pernickety [chiefly British], persnickety, picky
hyperfastidious, overdemanding, ultrafastidious
discerning, discriminating, selective
captious, carping, caviling (or cavilling), critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical
careful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulous
queasy (also queazy), squeamish
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