old-maidish

adjective

Definition of old-maidishnext
as in particular
hard to please an old-maidish teacher who required that every essay be written in very formal English

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for old-maidish
  1. particular
  2. nice
  3. careful
  4. demanding
  5. dainty
  6. finicky
  7. fastidious
  8. exacting
Adjective
  • The bones used are those of cattle—in particular, metacarpals and metatarsals, which are found in the lower limbs.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • This particular generative AI app was purposely programmed to warn me against trying to perform a death date exercise and noted that it isn’t scientifically based.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of particular
Adjective
  • Two hundred of her closest family and friends made it on the nice list and were invited to her winter celebration.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The result improved on the efficiency of previous packings, while making use of a novel approach: Rather than packing spheres in a nice, organized way, as Viazovska had done, the mathematicians used graph theory to pack spheres in a very disorderly fashion.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of nice
Adjective
  • After that, Buckley seemed more careful about positioning, doing his best to keep the action in the open while not allowing Covington to close in and work from the clinch.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Behind, kids are hoisted — careful with that hot chocolate!
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of careful
Adjective
  • Furthermore, selling a business is extremely demanding work, so having appropriate incentives in place for the key executives of the business to be divested is imperative.
    Raj Sharma, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • For the first time in our nearly 50-year history, a Black actress won our lead performance category — for an exceptionally demanding turn that only someone of Jean-Baptiste’s caliber could pull off.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of demanding
Adjective
  • One is a dog, one is a daintier version of Reynolds himself, one is a Lady Deadpool, and another is emblazoned with the green colors and red dragon of the Welsh flag.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 July 2024
  • This Diamond Initial Necklace from Sarah O is dainty, beautiful, sparkly, and pairs super well with other pieces.
    Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 10 Jan. 2024
Definition of dainty
Adjective
  • Honda is also working to reduce the indirect costs of production, including power consumption even though the necessary temperature of building as solid-state batteries are less finicky during production (and usage).
    Jake Lingeman, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Mauritian women, a renewable source of cheap labor, might be trained to do the finicky work of drilling holes into jewels for luxury watches.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of finicky
Adjective
  • There is going to be this look about her that’s very neat and clipped and tight and fastidious.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
  • While Richie rails against the restaurant’s extreme attention to detail and particular way of doing things, Duffy and Muser say the actual Ever staff is far more fastidious about its food — and its forks — than audiences saw onscreen.
    Marah Eakin, Vulture, 2 July 2024
Definition of fastidious
Adjective
  • The painter’s attempts to capture reality — so exacting, so careful, so prepared — end in what looks like failure.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024
  • The French have the historical edge, at least of topiary in its most exacting forms, with the grand formal gardens at the Palace of Versailles and swaths of rounded, bubbling topiary at the gardens of Marqueyssac.
    Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of exacting
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