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41punctual — Synonyms and related words: accurate, active, alert, apt, attentive, careful, close, compliant, conforming, conscientious, conscionable, constant, correct, critical, decisive, delicate, demanding, detailed, devoted, devout, duteous, dutiful,… …
42religious — Synonyms and related words: Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, God fearing, Mariological, abbacomes, abbot, accurate, adoring, anthropomorphic, anthropotheistic, ascetic, attentive, awesome, awful, beadsman, believing, brother, caloyer,… …
43scrupulous — Synonyms and related words: Pyrrhonic, accurate, active, agnostic, analyze, attentive, bashful, boggling, canvass, careful, case, cautious, censorious, check over, check up, choicy, choosy, close, comb, compliant, con, conforming, conscientious,… …
44strict — Synonyms and related words: Sabbatarian, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, accurate, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, aspersion, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bigoted, bossy,… …
45compulsive — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Compelling] Syn. driving, impelling, besetting, urgent; see necessary 1 , urgent 1 . 2. [Obsessive] Syn. addicted, driven, obsessive compulsive, overscrupulous; see addicted to , careful , enthusiastic 2 , habitual 1 .… …
46Probity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Probity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 probity probity integrity rectitude Sgm: N 1 uprightness uprightness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 honesty honesty faith Sgm: N 1 honor honor Sgm …
47overcritical — adjective overcritical parents Syn: fault finding, hypercritical, captious, carping, caviling, quibbling, hair splitting, overparticular; fussy, finicky, fastidious, pedantic, overscrupulous, punctilious; informal nitpicking, persnickety …
48pedantic — adjective a pedantic interpretation of the rules Syn: overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finicky; dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist; casuistic, casuistical,… …
49epicurean — adj 1. sybaritic, sensual, carnal, voluptuous; orgiastic, wild, unrestrained; self indulgent, intemperate, free living, Saturnalian. 2. dissolute, licentious, libertine, lascivious, debauched, dissipated, wasted; concupiscent, prurient,… …
50hypercritical — adj 1. overcritical, overabusive, over censorious; trenchant, defamatory, calumnious, denunciatory; cutting, maledictory, scurrilous, derogatory. 2. rigorous, exacting, pedantic, fussy; overparticular, hypercorrect, overscrupulous; severe,… …
