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[syn: dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Overnice \O"ver*nice"\, a.
Excessively nice; fastidious. --Bp. Hall. -- O"ver*nice"ly,
adv. -- O"ver*nice"ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
overnice
adj 1: 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" [syn:
dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "overnice":
Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, artificial, chichi,
elaborate, elaborated, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite,
formalistic, goody good-good, goody-goody, hairsplitting,
hypercritical, hyperelegant, hypersensitive, la-di-da, mannered,
mincing, morbidly sensitive, namby-pamby, overconscientious,
overcritical, overelaborate, overelegant, overfastidious,
overmeticulous, overparticular, overprecise, overrefined,
overscrupulous, oversensitive, oversqueamish, pedantic, precieuse,
precieux, precious, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic,
pretentious, puristic, simpering, studied, ultracritical,
unnatural