Local English word record

finicky

adjective · 1 sense

exacting especially about details

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Examples

  • a finicky eater
  • fussy about clothes
  • very particular about how her food was prepared

Word relationships

Synonyms

finical, fussy, particular, picky

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Princeton WordNet 3.0