Overnice

Synonyms for overnice
adj very careful, meticulous

choosy
discriminating
squeamish
exacting
finicky
fussy
captious

critical
dainty
demanding
difficult
hypercritical
nice
particular

persnickety
picky
punctilious
queasy
finical
easily disgusted
fussbudgety

hard to please
nit-picky
overdelicate
stickling

Antonyms for overnice

uncritical
indifferent
uncouth

undemanding
unfussy
uncareful

indiscriminating

Synonyms
adj overparticular

choosy
squeamish
fastidious
scrupulous
fussy

critical
dainty
difficult
nice
persnickety

picky
finical
finicking
fussbudget
hard to please

nit-picking
stickling

Antonyms

uncritical
undemanding

unfussy
easy

open

Synonyms
adj bookish, precise

pompous
stilted
abstruse
academic
arid
didactic
doctrinaire

dry
dull
egotistic
erudite
formal
fussy
hairsplitting

learned
ostentatious
particular
pedagogic
priggish
punctilious
sententious

scholastic
donnish
nit-picking
schoolish

Antonyms

informal
plain

simple
imprecise

Synonyms
adj extremely sophisticated and picky

affected
artful
artificial
chichi
choosy
dainty

delicate
fastidious
finicky
fragile
fussy
nice

ostentatious
particular
persnickety
pretentious
refined
showy

studied
la-di-da
alembicated
overrefined
precieux
stagy

Antonyms

useless
valueless
worthless
inexpensive

defective
deficient
impaired
disfavored

cheap
common

Synonyms
adj particular and fussy

squeamish
prudish
Victorian
fastidious
finicky
genteel

goody-goody
persnickety
picky
precious
prim
puritanical

sissy
strait-laced
stuffy
epicene
sissified
goody-two-shoes

pansified
prim and proper
stickling
tight-laced

Antonyms

informal

unconcerned

Synonyms
adj shy and strict in behavior

puritanical
prissy
fastidious
squeamish
uptight
narrow-minded
Victorian
affected
artificial
austere

bigoted
conventional
demure
finicky
genteel
illiberal
mincing
narrow
precise
pretentious

priggish
prim
proper
rigid
rigorous
scrupulous
severe
square
starchy
stern

stiff
stilted
straitlaced
stuffy
offish
overexact
overmodest
simpering

Antonyms

brave
extroverted

bold
outgoing

Synonyms
adj pedantic

abstruse
academic
arid
bookish
didactic
doctrinaire
dry
dull

egotistic
erudite
formal
fussy
hairsplitting
learned
literary
ostentatious

particular
pedagogic
pedantical
pompous
priggish
punctilious
sententious
stilted

donnish
formalistic
nit-picking
scholastic
schoolish

Synonyms
adj pedantic

abstruse
academic
arid
bookish
didactic
doctrinaire
dry
dull

egotistic
erudite
formal
fussy
hairsplitting
inkhorn
learned
literary

ostentatious
particular
pedagogic
pompous
priggish
punctilious
sententious
stilted

donnish
formalistic
nit-picking
scholastic
schoolish

Usage Notes

The semantic history of nice is quite varied, as the etymology and the obsolete senses attest, and any attempt to insist on only one of its present senses as correct will not be in keeping with the facts of actual usage. If any criticism is valid, it might be that the word is used too often and has become a cliché lacking the qualities of precision and intensity that are embodied in many of its synonyms.