| choosy | | |
| adj. | 1. choosey, choosy | difficult to please. |
| ~ fastidious | giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness.; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness" |
| fastidious | | |
| adj. | 1. fastidious | giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness.; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness" |
| ~ choosey, choosy | difficult to please. |
| ~ overnice, squeamish, prissy, dainty, nice | 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" |
| ~ finical, finicky, picky, fussy, particular | exacting especially about details.; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared" |
| ~ meticulous | marked by extreme care in treatment of details.; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities" |
| ~ pernickety, persnickety | characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details.; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher" |
| ~ old-maidish, old-womanish | primly fastidious. |
| ~ refined | (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel.; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste" |
| ~ tidy | marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits.; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind" |
| adj. | 2. exacting, fastidious | having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures.; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" |
| ~ microbiology | the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans. |
| finicky | | |
| adj. | 1. finical, finicky, fussy, particular, picky | exacting especially about details.; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared" |
| ~ fastidious | giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness.; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness" |
| art | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. art, fine art | the products of human creativity; works of art collectively.; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art" |
| ~ artistic creation, artistic production, art | the creation of beautiful or significant things.; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" |
| ~ artificial flower | a handmade imitation of a blossom. |
| ~ commercial art | art used for commercial purposes (as in advertising). |
| ~ creation | an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone. |
| ~ cyberart | art that is produced with the help of computer hardware and software. |
| ~ decoupage | art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer. |
| ~ diptych | a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book). |
| ~ gem, treasure | art highly prized for its beauty or perfection. |
| ~ genre | a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique. |
| ~ graphic art | the arts of drawing or painting or printmaking. |
| ~ grotesque | art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants. |
| ~ kitsch | excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste. |
| ~ mosaic | art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass. |
| ~ plastic art | the arts of shaping or modeling; carving and sculpture. |
| ~ triptych | art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together). |
| ~ work of art | art that is a product of one of the fine arts (especially a painting or sculpture of artistic merit). |
| ~ dance | an artistic form of nonverbal communication. |
| n. (act) | 2. art, artistic creation, artistic production | the creation of beautiful or significant things.; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" |
| ~ creation, creative activity | the human act of creating. |
| ~ arts and crafts | the arts of decorative design and handicraft.; "they sponsored arts and crafts in order to encourage craftsmanship in an age of mass production" |
| ~ ceramics | the art of making and decorating pottery. |
| ~ decalcomania | the art of transfering designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface. |
| ~ decoupage | the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with vanish or lacquer. |
| ~ draftsmanship, drafting, drawing | the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams.; "he learned drawing from his father" |
| ~ glyptography | carving or engraving (especially on stones). |
| ~ gastronomy | the art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food. |
| ~ origami | the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds). |
| ~ painting | creating a picture with paints.; "he studied painting and sculpture for many years" |
| ~ perfumery | the art of making perfumes. |
| ~ printmaking | artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens. |
| ~ sculpture, carving | creating figures or designs in three dimensions. |
| ~ topiary | making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees. |
| ~ americana | any artifact (such as books or furniture or art) that is distinctive of America. |
| ~ art, fine art | the products of human creativity; works of art collectively.; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art" |
| ~ ground | (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting. |
| ~ talaria | a winged sandal (as worn by Hermes in Graeco-Roman art). |
| ~ vocabulary | the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts).; "he introduced a wide vocabulary of techniques" |
| ~ aesthetics, esthetics | (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art).; "traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value" |
| ~ cinema, celluloid, film | a medium that disseminates moving pictures.; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events" |
| ~ expressive style, style | a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period.; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper" |
| ~ tout ensemble, ensemble | an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole. |
| ~ expo, exhibition, exposition | a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display. |
| ~ authenticator, appraiser | one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity. |
| ~ idealogue, theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer | someone who theorizes (especially in science or art). |
| ~ tension | a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature).; "there is a tension created between narrative time and movie time"; "there is a tension between these approaches to understanding history" |
| ~ doldrums, stagnation, stagnancy | a state of inactivity (in business or art etc).; "economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation" |
| ~ longueur | a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art). |
| ~ finger-paint | apply colors with one's fingers. |
| ~ fresco | paint onto wet plaster on a wall. |
| ~ distemper | paint with distemper. |
| ~ illuminate | add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts). |
| ~ miniate, rubricate | decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red.; "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated" |
| ~ blazon, emblazon | decorate with heraldic arms. |
| ~ sculpt, sculpture | create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material.; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice" |
| ~ paint | make a painting of.; "He painted his mistress many times" |
| ~ paint | make a painting.; "he painted all day in the garden"; "He painted a painting of the garden" |
| ~ repaint | paint again.; "He repainted the same scenery many times during his life" |
| ~ charge | place a heraldic bearing on.; "charge all weapons, shields, and banners" |
| ~ interpret, represent | create an image or likeness of.; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl" |
| ~ depict, picture, show, render | show in, or as in, a picture.; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting" |
| ~ illustrate | depict with an illustration. |
| ~ stylise, stylize, conventionalize | represent according to a conventional style.; "a stylized female head" |
| ~ limn, portray, depict | make a portrait of.; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba" |
| ~ portray, present | represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture.; "The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting" |
| ~ draw | represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface.; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse" |
| ~ charcoal | draw, trace, or represent with charcoal. |
| ~ cartoon | draw cartoons of. |
| ~ fill in, shade | represent the effect of shade or shadow on. |
| ~ stipple | make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink. |
| ~ watercolor, watercolour | paint with watercolors. |
| ~ miniate | paint with red lead or vermilion. |
| ~ mold, mould, model | form in clay, wax, etc.; "model a head with clay" |
| ~ chalk out, sketch | make a sketch of.; "sketch the building" |
| ~ lithograph | make by lithography. |
| ~ silkscreen | print by silkscreen. |
| ~ stencil | mark or print with a stencil. |
| ~ engrave, etch | carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block.; "engrave a letter" |
| ~ stipple | engrave by means of dots and flicks. |
| ~ etch | make an etching of.; "He etched her image into the surface" |
| ~ aquatint | etch in aquatint. |
| ~ pose, posture, model, sit | assume a posture as for artistic purposes.; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" |
| ~ deaccession | sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works.; "The museum deaccessioned several important works of this painter" |
| ~ pop, popular | (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people). |
| ~ releasing, cathartic | emotionally purging (of e.g. art). |
| ~ moderne | of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes. |
| ~ nonrepresentational | of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature. |
| ~ formalised, formalistic, formalized | concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art).; "highly formalized plays like `Waiting for Godot'" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. art, artistry, prowess | a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation.; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art" |
| ~ airmanship, aviation | the art of operating aircraft. |
| ~ eristic | the art of logical disputation (especially if specious). |
| ~ falconry | the art of training falcons to hunt and return. |
| ~ fortification | the art or science of strengthening defenses. |
| ~ homiletics | the art of preaching. |
| ~ horology | the art of designing and making clocks. |
| ~ minstrelsy | the art of a minstrel. |
| ~ musicianship | artistry in performing music. |
| ~ enology, oenology | the art of wine making. |
| ~ puppetry | the art of making puppets and presenting puppet shows. |
| ~ taxidermy | the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance. |
| ~ telescopy | the art of making and using telescopes. |
| ~ ventriloquism, ventriloquy | the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy). |
| ~ superior skill | more than ordinary ability. |
| n. (communication) | 4. art, artwork, graphics, nontextual matter | photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication.; "the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book" |
| ~ publication | a copy of a printed work offered for distribution. |
| ~ visual communication | communication that relies on vision. |
| ~ illustration | artwork that helps make something clear or attractive. |
| ~ drawing | an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper.; "it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7" |
| arts | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts | studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).; "the college of arts and sciences" |
| ~ discipline, field of study, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, subject, field, study | a branch of knowledge.; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" |
| ~ neoclassicism | revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation. |
| ~ classicalism, classicism | a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms.; "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans" |
| ~ romantic movement, romanticism | a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization.; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality" |
| ~ english | the discipline that studies the English language and literature. |
| ~ history | the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings.; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view" |
| ~ art history | the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture. |
| ~ chronology | the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events. |
| ~ beaux arts, fine arts | the study and creation of visual works of art. |
| ~ performing arts | arts or skills that require public performance. |
| ~ occidentalism | the scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people. |
| ~ oriental studies, orientalism | the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people. |
| ~ philosophy | the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics. |
| ~ literary study | the humanistic study of literature. |
| ~ library science | the study of the principles and practices of library administration. |
| ~ philology, linguistics | the humanistic study of language and literature. |
| ~ musicology | the scholarly and scientific study of music. |
| ~ sinology | the study of Chinese history and language and culture. |
| ~ stemmatics, stemmatology | the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis).; "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"; "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics" |
| ~ trivium | (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence. |
| ~ quadrivium | (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy. |
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