overnice

3 definitions found

overnice - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

overnice - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  overnice
      adj 1: 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, overnice, prissy, squeamish]

overnice - 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