Overnice

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overnice \O"ver*nice"\, a.
     Excessively nice; fastidious. --Bp. Hall. -- {O"ver*nice"ly},
     adv. -- {O"ver*nice"ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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