persnickety
11persnickety — adjective a) Fastidious or fussy. Marjorie glanced up and down the long street. “Well, I never in my life saw so many different kinds of houses!” she exclaimed. “Aren’t they funny! Why, they look almost like people. Look at that little… …
12persnickety — per|snick|e|ty [pəˈsnıkıti US pər ] adj AmE [Date: 1900 2000; Origin: pernickety persnickety (19 21 centuries), perhaps from particular] worrying too much about details that are not important used to show disapproval …
13persnickety — per|snick|e|ty [ pər snıkəti ] adjective AMERICAN INFORMAL 1. ) worrying about details that do not matter: FUSSY 2. ) difficult to do because you have to deal with a lot of small objects and details: TRICKY: a persnickety task …
14persnickety — adjective, informal my persnickety boss makes us disinfect the drawers in the cash register every night Syn: fussy, difficult to please, difficult, finicky, overfastidious, fastidious, overparticular, particular, faddish, punctilious, hair… …
15persnickety — persnicketiness, n. /peuhr snik i tee/, adj. Informal. 1. overparticular; fussy. 2. snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob. 3. requiring painstaking care. Also, pernickety. [1885 90; orig. Scots, var. of PERNICKETY] Syn. 1. nitpicking,… …
16persnickety — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. fussy, fastidious, particular; see careful . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Very difficult to please: choosy, dainty, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, nice, particular, squeamish. Informal …
17persnickety — per·snick·et·y || pÉ™r nɪkÉ™tɪ /pÉ™ n adj. meticulous, fussy, overly concerned with small details …
18persnickety — adjective North American term for pernickety …
19persnickety — adjective AmE pernickety …
20persnickety — adj Informal. 1. fastidious, fussy, finical, finicky, Inf. nitpicking; particular, discriminating, discriminative, highly selective, Inf. choosy; picayune, hairsplitting, trifling, petty, Inf. fuddy duddy; punctilious, precise, exact, attentive… …
