finickyadjective
uk/ˈfɪn.ɪ.ki/us/ˈfɪn.ɪ.ki/disapproving difficult to please:
a finicky eater
He's terribly finicky about his food.
UK needing a lot of attention to detail:
Repairing watches must be a very finicky job.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wanting everything to be right
- anal
- anally retentive
- choosy
- dot
- dot the i's and cross the t's idiom
- faddy
- fastidious
- fusspot
- fussy
- houseproud
- martinet
- nitpicking
- particular
- perfectionism
- perfectionist
- pernickety
- persnickety
- pettifogging
- purist
- stickler
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