All stickler synonyms
stick·ler
S s noun stickler
- mystery — anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown: the mysteries of nature.
- inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- enforcer — One who enforces.
- brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- whodunit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
- enigma — A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
- cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- drillmaster — a person who trains others in something, especially routinely or mechanically.
- dogmatist — a person who asserts his or her opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
- grabber — a person or thing that grabs.
- facer — a person or thing that faces.
- formalist — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- abstruseness — hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories.
- monomaniac — (no longer in technical use) a psychosis characterized by thoughts confined to one idea or group of ideas.
- martinet — a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one.
- closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
- disciplinarian — a person who enforces or advocates discipline: The teacher was a formidable disciplinarian.
- gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
- fusspot — a fussbudget.
- bigot — If you describe someone as a bigot, you mean that they are bigoted.
adj stickler
- fussbudget — a fussy or needlessly fault-finding person.
- by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- conscionable — acceptable to one's conscience
adjective stickler
- choicy — Fastidious; choosy; discriminating.