fastidious

adjectives

giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
"a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
fastidious
is derived from
fastidiousness
antonym
unfastidious
is similar to
difficult to please
choosey, choosy
is similar to
excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
"too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
is similar to
exacting especially about details
"a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"
finical, finicky, fussy, particular, picky
is similar to
marked by extreme care in treatment of details
"a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"
meticulous
is similar to
characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details
"a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"
pernickety, persnickety
is similar to
primly fastidious
old-maidish, old-womanish
see also
(used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
"she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
refined
see also
marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits
"a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"
tidy
having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
"fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"
exacting, fastidious
antonym
unfastidious