Synonyms: fastidious
Definition: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
Usage: a fastidious and incisive intellect; fastidious about personal cleanliness
Similar words: choosey, choosy
Definition: difficult to please
Similar words: prissy, dainty, squeamish, overnice, nice
Definition: excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
Usage: too nice about his food to take to camp cooking; so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow
Similar words: particular, fussy, finical, finicky, picky
Definition: exacting especially about details
Usage: a finicky eater; fussy about clothes; very particular about how her food was prepared
Similar words: meticulous
Definition: marked by extreme care in treatment of details
Usage: a meticulous craftsman; almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities
Similar words: pernickety, persnickety
Definition: characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details
Usage: a persnickety job; a persnickety school teacher
Similar words: old-maidish, old-womanish
Definition: primly fastidious