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fussy

/ˈfʌ.si/

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Northern England/ˈfʊ.si/

fussy adjective: anxious or particular about petty details; hard to please.

Adjective

fussy (comparative fussier, superlative fussiest)

  1. Anxious or particular about petty details; hard to please.
    • It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC
  2. Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be bad-tempered/ill-tempered (especially of babies).
  3. Having much unnecessary detail or decoration.
    • The internal decor of the SR-built Bulleid corridor stock was noticeably cleaner and less fussy than that of prewar coaches.1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398

Proper noun capitalized: Fussy

Fussy

  1. A commune in Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
  2. A surname from French.
  3. A surname from German.

fussy meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Malay

fussy in Bengali

হৈচৈ ভরা, ব্যস্ততাপূর্ণ

fussy in Malayalam

fastidious, finicky, particular
വെറുതെ ബഹളം വയ്ക്കുന്ന, പരാതി പറയുന്ന, തൃപ്തിപ്പെടുത്താൻ കഴിയാത്ത, നിസ്സാരകാര്യങ്ങളിൽ അതിശ്രദ്ധയുള്ള, ചില്ലരകാര്യങ്ങളിൽ വലിയ ശ്രദ്ധവയ്ക്കുന്ന, ആവശ്യമില്ലാതെ തിരക്കു കാണിക്കുന്ന
ornate, over-elaborate, over-decorated
അലങ്കാരബഹുലമായ, അലങ്കൃത, പ്രസിദ്ധ, ഭൂഷിത, മണ്ഡിത, ലാഞഛിത

fussy in Kannada

ಅಲ್ಪ ವಿವರಗಳಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಆಸಕ್ತನಾದ, ಗಡಿಬಿಡಿಯ, ಅತಿಸಂಭ್ರಮದ, ಚಡಪಡಿಸುವ, ಅತಿಯಾಗಿ ಅಲಂಕೃತಗೊಳಿಸಿದ, ಆಡಂಬರದ

fussy in Malay

particular about details
pemilih
More languagesFewer languages
fussy in Indonesian
rewel
fussy in Persian
ضربه زننده
fussy in Thai
พิถีพิถัน pí-tǐi-pí-tǎn, จู้จี้จุกจิก

Examples of fussy in a sentence

  • I put SpongeBob on when the kid gets fussy.
  • It was the minimum required to keep the two crinklebutts less fussy during changies.
  • It's neither too sparse nor too fussy, neither overly minimalist nor overdone.

All 25 example sentences with fussy

Forms of fussy

comparativefussier
superlativefussiest

Origin of fussy

From fuss + -y.

Words formed from fussy

Words that rhyme with fussy

Questions about fussy

What does fussy mean?
Fussy means anxious or particular about petty details; hard to please.
What is fussy in Bengali?
Fussy in Bengali is হৈচৈ ভরা, ব্যস্ততাপূর্ণ. See Fussy meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is fussy?
Fussy can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fussy?
Fussy is pronounced /ˈfʌ.si/.

Words near fussy in the dictionary

  1. fusspot
  2. fusspots
  3. fusspotted
  4. fusspottery
  5. fusspotting
  6. fussy
  7. fussy cut
  8. fust
  9. fustanella
  10. fustanellaed
  11. fustanellas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fussy (page history and authors); Fussy (page history and authors); fussy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fussy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); fussy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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