choosy
15
3.9
- adjective
- /ˈtʃuːzi/
:
exigente
- Beggars can't be choosy.
And women are are choosier in comparison, right?
- And women are are choosier in comparison, right?
- I get a chance to be a little bit choosier right now because people will send things.
- When you don't have many options, you can't be choosy.
- And so for me, I'm very, very limited and choosy about what communities I want to spend my time with.
- And so I do still take on sponsorships, but I'm much more choosy and many of the sponsorships that I do are with companies that I've worked with for.
Examples
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While he took pictures everywhere he went, Frank was choosy about what he included in the show.
Blog text (24) -
Perhaps Somer should consider being more choosy with the craft fairs in which she exhibits?
Blog text (1) -
You have to be choosy, you know.
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I had spent so much time going from one ship to the next and being choosy about them, too.
Fiction book (1995) -
You ought to be a little more choosy.
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And so for me, I'm very, very limited and choosy about what communities I want to spend my time with.
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I soon got very choosy about whom I would dive with.
Blog text (3) -
Anaheed: Parents frequently want their daughters to be choosy, careful, and discriminating when it comes to dating boys.
Blog text (8) -
So, it's entirely possible the next group of smartphone buyers isn't just cheaper, but choosier.
Blog text (24) -
He is quite choosy about the books he reads, only selecting those that are highly recommended.
Synonyms
118
4.3
To choose carefully and accept only certain people or things
106
4.4
Careful about small details and hard to please
67
4.7
Being hard to please about food or small details
24
3.9
Easily annoyed and hard to please about small things
12
7.1
Hard to please and careful about small details
5
6.1
A person who is not easily satisfied and often complains
4
9.8
Being very picky about small details
3
6.8
Careful about choosing things like clothes or food and hard to please
1
6.8
A person who is not easily pleased and often complains
A person who is very picky about what they accept
Being very picky about small details when choosing or arranging things
Too worried about small details and hard to please
Careful and picky about small details and choices
Choosy about small details and what they accept
Antonyms
How Picky
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Choosy comes from choose ('to pick') plus the little ending -y that turns it into a word that describes a person; imagine someone who only picks the things they like. So, to be choosy is to be very particular and hard to please.