adjective
1.
having or displaying exacting standards
too nice about his food to like camp cooking
Synonyms: ||choicy, choosy, clerkish, dainty, delicate, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, miminy-piminy, ||mincy, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, old-womanish, particular, pernickety, persnickety, picksome, picky, precious, squeamish, squeamy
Related Word: discerning, discriminating, penetrating; overparticular; queasy; careful, meticulous, punctilious, scrupulous; judicious, sage, sapient, wise
Contrasted words: coarse, gross, vulgar; callow, crude, green, raw, uncouth; lax, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack; careless, sloppy, slovenly
2.
Synonyms: fine 1, delicate, finespun, hairline, hairsplitting, refined, subtle
3.
Synonyms: pleasant 1, agreeable, congenial, favorable, good, gratifying, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasureful, welcome
4.
Synonyms: correct 2, accurate, exact, precise, proper, right, rigorous
Related Word: rigid, strict, stringent; exquisite, rare
Contrasted words: haphazard, happy-go-lucky, hit-or-miss, random; careless, heedless, inadvertent
5.
Synonyms: decorous 1, becoming, befitting, comme il faut, conforming, correct, decent, proper, right, seemly