Meaning of OVERNICE
| Pronunciation: | | 'owvur'nIs
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | dainty, fastidious, nice, prissy, squeamish |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \O"ver*nice"\, a.
Excessively nice; fastidious. --Bp. Hall. -- {O"ver*nice"ly},
adv. -- {O"ver*nice"ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | affected, artificial, chichi, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, formalistic, Gongoresque, Gongoristic, goody good-good, goody-goody, hairsplitting, hypercritical, hyperelegant, hypersensitive, la-di-da, mannered, Marinistic, 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 |
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