Precisian

  • 61sheep — Synonyms and related words: Babbitt, Columbia, Karakul, Kerry Hill, Lincoln, Merino, Middle American, Panama, Philistine, Romeldale, Romney, Suffolk, Wensleydale, anal character, ape, assembly, bellwether, bourgeois, brethren, burgher,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 62simpering — Synonyms and related words: elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, formalistic, goody good good, goody goody, mincing, namby pamby, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, pedantic, precieuse, precious, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 63square — Synonyms and related words: Babbitt, Little Joe, Methuselah, Middle American, Philistine, T square, aboveboard, absolutely, accommodate, accord, accordant, account with, accurate, accurately, adapt, adipose, adjust, agora, agree, agree with,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 64stickler — Synonyms and related words: Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all powerful ruler, arrogator, ass, autarch, autocrat, bigot, bitter ender, bullethead, caesar, captious critic, commissar, czar, despot, dictator, diehard,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 65teenybopper — Synonyms and related words: Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, adolescent, anal character, babe, baby, bourgeois, broad, burgher, chick, colleen, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 66traditionalist — Synonyms and related words: Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, conservative, dad, dodo, elder, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy duddy, granny, has been, longhair, matriarch, mid Victorian, mossback, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 67yes man — Synonyms and related words: Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, accepter, anal character, apple polisher, ass licker, assentator, assenter, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlick, bootlicker, bourgeois, brown nose, brownie, burgher, clawback, cog …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 68pedant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. scholar, theorist, academician, doctrinaire; prig, bluestocking. See affectation. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. formalist, doctrinaire, dogmatist, methodologist, precisian, bluestocking, bookworm, pedagogue …

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  • 69Impiety — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Impiety >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 impiety impiety Sgm: N 1 sin sin &c. 945 Sgm: N 1 irreverence irreverence Sgm: N 1 profaneness profaneness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 profanity profanity …

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  • 70prig — 1753, precisian in speech or manners, of unknown origin; earlier dandy, fop (1670s), thief (c.1600, in form prigger recorded from 1560s), also a thieves cant word for a tinker (1560s), though connection of this with the other meaning is uncertain …

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