Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
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Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.
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Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.
Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
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Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…
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Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…
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Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
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Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
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Smooth; polished.
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Smooth; polished.
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Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.
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Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.
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Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.
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Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.
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Quality or state of being nice.
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Quality or state of being nice.
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High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.
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High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.
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Quality or state of being nice.
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Quality or state of being nice.
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Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
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Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
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Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.
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Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
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Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
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Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor;…
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Excessively nice; fastidious.
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Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning.
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Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling impropriet…
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Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
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Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
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