Found 3 hits - Term: overnice, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
overnice \o"vernice"\, a.
excessively nice; fastidious. --bp. hall. -- o"vernice"ly,
adv. -- o"vernice"ness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
o"vernice"ly o"vernice"ness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
overnice
adj : 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, prissy, squeamish
see also:
dainty nice prissy squeamish
- [3] : 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
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