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persnickety
Synonyms and Antonyms of persnickety
1
hard to please
choosy (or choosey), dainty, delicate, demanding, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussbudgety, fussy, nice, old-maidish, particular, pernickety [chiefly British], 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
2
requiring much time, effort, or careful attention
easy, effortless, facile, simple, smooth
3
being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior
aristocratic, elitist, high-hat, potty, ritzy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, toffee-nosed [chiefly British]
aloof, arrogant, bumptious, haughty, high-and-mighty, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-handed, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppity
biggety (or biggity) [Southern & Midland], bigheaded, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), prideful, self-conceited, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swelled-headed, swellheaded
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