Finickity

Quick meaning: Finickity is an adjective meaning (usually said of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.

Meaning

(usually said of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.

Example Sentences

We see, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use one may make of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule like the rule of conditional proof.

It's great when you've taken the time to have persuade someone to explain to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users.

Q62 Mr Bercow: But £86 million is very precise. It is not £85 million, it is not £90 milllion; it is £86 million. […] I am sorry if you think I am being finickity; I am being very finickity about it but I believe rightly.

I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.

Synonyms for finickity

Depending on context, synonyms include fastidious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include finicky, finickety, finnicky, finical, picky, fastidious.

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