persnickety
4
9.8
- adjective
- /pərˈsnɪkəti/
- Informal
:
meticuloso
- They were all so fussy and persnickety about everything.
But it, it is important to note that people like me, scientist types, do get very persnickety about words because they matter and they have meaning.
- But it, it is important to note that people like me, scientist types, do get very persnickety about words because they matter and they have meaning.
- Now with persnickety weeds, you can take a black tarp, a silage tarp, and cover that area.
Examples
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Then yeah, I'd get pretty persnickety as well.
Blog text (22) -
Why are you being so persnickety?
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I understand it appears I am being persnickety by pointing out these minor problems.
Blog text (25) -
I mean, look, you can get super persnickety about this stuff, but you don't have to be.
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I am not trying to be persnickety, but do you have any phobias?
Blog text (24) -
Everybody is persnickety about whether 13 is lucky or unlucky.
Blog text (24) -
Some individuals are most persnickety about their long-term associations.
Academic text (1993) -
Even the most persnickety old-timers on the island agreed that Maggie and Grant had done a great job with the house.
Fiction book (2000) -
Putting aside that his circumstances suggest ample grounds for legitimate rage, the guy is rather persnickety about messes.
Blog text (29) -
She was so persnickety about her wardrobe that she would only wear outfits with matching accessories.
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
16
7.4
Pays close attention to small details
13
7.9
Too fussy about being neat and proper
13
8.1
Paying too much attention to small rules or details, often annoying others
12
7.1
Hard to please and careful about small details
8
8.0
Very careful about small details and being clean, often hard to please
4
7.9
Paying too much attention to small unimportant details and criticizing them
3
6.8
Careful about choosing things like clothes or food and hard to please
Being very careful about small details in a way that annoys others
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
Paying too much attention to small unimportant details that annoy other people
Too focused on small unimportant details in a discussion
Too careful about small details when it is not needed
Being very picky about small details when choosing or arranging things
Careful 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 Fussy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Persnickety probably started as a playful local word and is like the everyday words picky or nitpicky, which mean 'fussy about small things'. A helpful image is someone checking every tiny detail, so persnickety means being very particular and hard to please.