finicky
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- exacting especially about details
- "a finicky eater"
Adj
- Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
- Demanding; requiring above-normal care.
Origin / Etymology
From finick (“to work in a fastidious manner, wasting time over unnecesasary details”) + -y. Compare finicking, finical, and dated finikin. Perhaps suggested by obsolete Dutch fijnkens (“accurately, neatly, prettily”) (modern Dutch fijntjes). Compare also Sicilian finicchiu.
Synonyms
anal-retentive, choosy, conscientious, dainty, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finickity, finicky, finikin, fussy, hypercritical, lily-handed, meticulous, niggly, nit-picky, nitpickish, nitty, overcritical, overscrupulous, particular, pedantic, pernickety, persnickety, picky
Scrabble Score: 19
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