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• Adjectif désignant une personne ou un comportement trop agréable ou trop poli, souvent de manière affectée ou exagérée, jusqu'à devenir agaçant ou prétentieux. Peut aussi impliquer une délicatesse ou une sophistication excessive, frisant la préciosité ou la mièvrerie.

An obsolete adjective meaning excessively or fastidiously nice, often implying a sense of being overly refined or particular to the point of being annoying.

1. Excessively fastidiousC2formal

   Being overly particular, delicate, or easily disgusted, often to an unreasonable degree.

   d'une délicatesse excessive

   • His overnice palate refused to eat anything that wasn't perfectly prepared.
   • She was so overnice about cleanliness that she would not touch a doorknob.
   • The critic's overnice standards made it impossible for him to enjoy any meal.

   Synonymesdaintyfinickyfussyhypercriticalpernicketypersnicketyprissysqueamish

   Antonymescarelesscoarsecrudeindifferentnegligentslovenlyuncriticalunfastidious