Englishfastidious
adjective
he was fastidious about personal hygiene:
scrupulous, punctilious, painstaking, meticulous, assiduous, sedulous, perfectionist, fussy, finicky, dainty, over-particular;
critical, overcritical, hypercritical, hard/difficult/impossible to please;
pedantic, precise, exact, hair-splitting, exacting, demanding;
Scottish, & Irish pass-remarkable;
informal nitpicking, choosy, picky;
British, informal pernickety;
North American, informal persnickety;
archaic nice, overnice.
▷antonyms easy-going; sloppy.
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