finicky
12
7.1
- adjective
- /ˈfɪnɪki/
:
quisquilloso
- The frozen dough was a little finicky to slice, but it was not a deterrent to making them!
Examples
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I was always, and still kind of am, a little finicky about ground meat.
Blog text (24) -
The game's controls are finicky enough to make getting full marks on everything pretty much impossible.
Blog text (11) -
But not everyone has finicky skin like me, so keep that in mind as well.
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You know the steam cycle can be a little finicky.
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Mark's such a finicky eater.
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We know how finicky the good Reverend is about his wardrobe, so he oughta be scootin' up here any minute to change.
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Prospects for keeping the finicky beasts alive in aquaria have improved greatly, but some still do not survive.
Academic text (1994) -
Lucille was a thin, fair-haired girl with a finicky stomach, irregular periods, and sensitive skin.
Fiction book (1994) -
Because he tended to be a finicky eater, she treated him to a helping of molasses to sweeten the feed.
Fiction book (1995) -
My cat is very finicky about her food and only eats specific brands.
Synonyms
106
4.4
Careful about small details and hard to please
67
4.7
Being hard to please about food or small details
58
8.6
Being very careful about small details
24
3.9
Easily annoyed and hard to please about small things
15
3.9
Hard to please when choosing things like clothes or food
13
7.9
Too fussy about being neat and proper
13
6.7
Needing a lot of care and attention
8
8.0
Very careful about small details and being clean, often hard to please
5
6.1
A person who is not easily satisfied and often complains
4
7.9
Paying too much attention to small unimportant details and criticizing them
4
9.8
Being very picky about small details
3
7.2
Careful to do things correctly and notice small details
3
6.8
Careful about choosing things like clothes or food and hard to please
1
7.2
Tends to want everything done without any mistakes
Careful about small details and hard to please
Being very picky about small details when choosing or arranging things
Being very careful about small details in a way that annoys others
A person who is very picky about what they accept
Choosy about small details and what they accept
Careful and picky about small details and choices
Too worried about small details and hard to please
Paying too much attention to small, unimportant details
Giving too much attention to small, unimportant details
Antonyms
How Fussy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Finicky comes from the older word finical, which comes from fine meaning 'small' or 'delicate'. So a finicky person pays close attention to tiny details and is hard to please.