precisian
adjective
Roget 739:
severe;
strict,
hard,
harsh,
dour,
rigid,
stiff,
stern,
rigorous,
uncompromising,
exacting,
exigent,
exigeant†,
inexorable,
inflexible,
obdurate,
austere,
hard-headed,
hard-nosed,
hard-shell [U.S.],
relentless,
Spartan,
Draconian,
stringent,
strait-laced,
searching,
unsparing,
iron-handed,
peremptory,
absolute,
positive,
arbitrary,
imperative;
coercive
etc.
744;
tyrannical,
extortionate,
grinding,
withering,
oppressive,
inquisitorial;
inclement
etc.
(ruthless)
914.1;
cruel
etc.
(malevolent)
907;
haughty,
arrogant
etc.
885;
precisian†.
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noun
Roget 988:
impiety;
sin
etc.
945;
irreverence;
profaneness
etc.
adj.;
profanity,
profanation;
blasphemy,
desecration,
sacrilege;
scoffing
etc.
v..
[feigned piety]
hypocrisy
etc.
(falsehood)
544;
pietism,
cant,
pious fraud;
lip devotion,
lip service,
lip reverence;
misdevotion†,
formalism,
austerity;
sanctimony,
sanctimoniousness
etc.
adj.;
pharisaism,
precisianism†;
sabbatism†,
sabbatarianism†;
odium theologicum [Lat.],
sacerdotalism†;
bigotry
etc.
(obstinacy)
606,
(prejudice)
481;
blue laws.
hardening,
backsliding,
declension,
perversion,
reprobation.
sinner
etc.
949;
scoffer,
blasphemer;
sacrilegist†;
sabbath breaker;
worldling;
hypocrite
etc.
(dissembler)
548;
Tartufe†,
Mawworm†.
bigot;
saint [Iron.];
Pharisee;
sabbatarian†,
formalist,
methodist,
puritan,
pietist†,
precisian†,
religionist,
devotee;
ranter,
fanatic,
juramentado†.
the wicked,
the evil,
the unjust,
the reprobate;
sons of men,
sons of Belial,
the wicked one;
children of darkness.
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Roget 739:
severity;
strictness,
harshness
etc.
adj.;
rigor,
stringency,
austerity;
inclemency
etc.
(pitilessness)
914.1;
arrogance
etc.
885;
precisianism†.
arbitrary power;
absolutism,
despotism;
dictatorship,
autocracy,
tyranny,
domineering,
oppression;
assumption,
usurpation;
inquisition,
reign of terror,
martial law;
iron heel,
iron rule,
iron hand,
iron sway;
tight grasp;
brute force,
brute strength;
coercion
etc.
744;
strong hand,
tight hand.
hard lines,
hard measure;
tender mercies [Iron.];
sharp practice;
pipe-clay,
officialism.
tyrant,
disciplinarian,
precisian†,
martinet,
stickler,
bashaw†,
despot,
hard master,
Draco,
oppressor,
inquisitor,
extortioner,
harpy,
vulture;
accipitres†,
birds of prey,
raptorials†,
raptors†.
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Moby thesaurus: Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, captious critic, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exact, exquisite, formalist, formalistic, goody good-good, goody-goody, methodical, methodologist, meticulous, middle-class type, mincing, model child, namby-pamby, nitpicker, orderly, organization man, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, parrot, pedant, pedantic, perfectionist, plastic person, precieuse, precieux, precious, precise, precisianist, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, punctilious, purist, puristic, scrupulous, sheep, simpering, square, stickler, teenybopper, traditionalist, trimmer, yes-man ... show more.
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