finickity
UK/fəˈnɪk.ɪ.ti/
finickity adjective: fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.
Adjective
finickity (comparative more finickity, superlative most finickity)
- Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.
- It's great when you've taken the time to have persuade someone to explain to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users.1993 October 7, David Covey, “Re: unix is user-friendly”, in comp.unix.user-friendly (Usenet), retrieved 21 Sep 2008
- We see, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use one may make of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule like the rule of conditional proof.1997, Neil Tennant, The Taming of the True, →ISBN, page 327
- Synonyms:
- fastidious
Examples of finickity in a sentence
- It is not £85 million, it is not £90 milllion; it is £86 million. […] I am sorry if you think I am being finickity; I am being very finickity about it but I believe rightly.2005, House of Commons International Development Committee, Parliament of Great Britain, Development assistance in Iraq: Interim Report...
- Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.2005, Michael Winner, Winner Takes All, →ISBN, page 11:
Synonyms of finickity
Forms of finickity
| comparative | more finickity |
|---|---|
| superlative | most finickity |
Origin of finickity
Possibly a blend of finicky + pernickety
Words that rhyme with finickity
Questions about finickity
- What does finickity mean?
- Finickity means fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.
- How do you use finickity in a sentence?
- It is not £85 million, it is not £90 milllion; it is £86 million. […] I am sorry if you think I am being finickity; I am being very finickity about it but I believe rightly.
- What part of speech is finickity?
- Finickity is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce finickity?
- Finickity is pronounced /fəˈnɪk.ɪ.ti/ (UK).
Words near finickity in the dictionary
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