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101punctilious — I adjective accurate, attentive, careful, ceremonious, conscientious, correct, diligens, dutiful, exact, exacting, faithful, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, formal, fussy, methodical, meticulous, minutely correct, observant, observant of …
102rigid — I adjective austere, dour, durus, exact, exacting, firm, firmly set, fixed, flinty, formal, hard, harsh, hidebound, indurate, indurated, indurative, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, motionless, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox,… …
103stringent — I adjective authoritative, binding, compelling, compulsory, despotic, dictatorial, draconian, exact, exacting, exigent, forceful, hard, harsh, inescapable, inflexible, ironhanded, precise, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, rough, stern, stiff, strait …
104uncompromising — I adjective adamant, austere, conservative, determined, difficult, exacting, exigent, fanatic, fanatical, firm, hard, immovable, implacable, incorruptible, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, irreconcilable, narrow, obdurate, obstinate,… …
105Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes — T.Sorell In the English speaking world Pierre Gassendi is probably best known as the author of a set of Objections to Descartes’s Meditations. These Objections, the fifth of seven sets collected by Mersenne, are relatively long and full, and… …
106test — I n. examination, set of questions 1) to administer, conduct, give a test 2) to draw up, make up, set (BE) a test 3) to take a test 4) to fail; pass a test 5) a demanding, difficult; easy test 6) an achievement; aptitude; intelligence; loyalty… …
107choosy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj., informal, fussy, finicky. See taste. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. selective, particular, fussy; see careful . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. picky, fussy, finicky, particular, selective,… …
108finicky — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. finical, fussy; meticulous. See perfection, care. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. fussy, picky, overparticular, exacting, dainty, meticulous, choosy, fastidious, anal retentive, *persnickety, *hard …
109meticulous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fastidious, exacting, scrupulous. See taste, truth. Ant., sloppy, careless. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. scrupulous, fastidious, precise, careful; see accurate 1 , 2 , careful . See Synonym Study at… …
110nice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. pleasing, agreeable, attractive, enjoyable; tasteful, proper, genteel; precise, accurate, exact, meticulous; delicate, fine, sensitive, appealing; overrefined, critical, squeamish. See pleasure,… …
