Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Finicky.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Affecting great nicety or extreme elegance; overnice; unduly particular about trifles; fastidious: same as finikin.
- Synonyms Finical, Spruce, Foppish. Finical applies to an overwrought delicacy of taste in manners, dress, and speech; spruce, to appearance, especially dress, a Spruce person being too conspicuously trim for elegance or dignity; foppish, to absorption in the vanities of dress. All these words are applied especially to men. See coxcomb.
Wiktionary
- adj. Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. exacting especially about details
Etymologies
- University slang, probably from fine. (Wiktionary)
- Probably from fine1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“With each of your volunteer help of 4 hours this July collecting signatures from your neighbors and finical donations, the citizens of Portland will hold Sam Adams accountable for willfully lying to us to get elected, orchestration of an elaborate cover-up and abusing the power we granted him.”
“For all over-rhythmical writing is at once felt to be affected and finical and wholly lacking in passion owing to the monotony of its superficial polish.”
“This medicare buy in is payed for by peoples premiums, it does nothing to the finical state of medicare for old people.”
“The Regulations people talk about are the regulations on the finical sector that would of prevented the finical crises if they had not been removed.”
“The reasons there is such a problem now is that we removed government regulations causing a finical crises; and the GOP spent away our surplus on wars, and tax cuts to wealthy people who thn in turn speculated in assets expanding the bubble.”
“The people's pressing work deals with housing, finical, jobs, and health care issues.”
“Bald faced lying to the American public to start a war, bringing back torture, the administration that brought about finical collapse.”
“Does anyone know a good book/online course to teach finical literacy/intelligence?”
“Yes America country that just went through one of the worst finical crises in history due to a failure to regulate is overregulated.”
“You know Terry after the great depression America put regulations on finical institutions, and the whole time those regulations were in place no finical crisses occurred.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘finical’.
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phrontistery - f
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fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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pedantic words
Busie old foole, unruly Sunne,..Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide Late schooleboyes.
pedagogic, schoolmasterly, academic, bookish, donnish, dry as dust, dryasdust, pedantic, erudite, formal, inkhorn, learned and 65 more...
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High Calutin'
All those high-flown but suspicious -cal adjectives
intrinsical, poetical, tragical, aquatical, ironical, madeupical, dramatical, pathetical, fistical, apocalyptical, problematical, enigmatical and 18 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 more...
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What's next here?
thunderhead, thundercloud, cumulus, cumulonimbus, fibrous, hazy, glaciated, cirrus, nimbus, meteorology, fahrenheit, thermoscope and 285 more...
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ephduke's Words
ephemeral, obfuscation, defenestration, mastication, expectorate, prolix, apopleptic, acarpous, abrogate, accretion, admonitory, alacrity and 165 more...
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redchuck's Words
diagetic, melungeon, palimpsest, y'all, fandango, corpuscule, dibble, bedouin, flanger, antediluvian, camphor, nadir and 69 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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autumnintheattic's Words
obesophobia, philophobia, scoptophobia, tocophobia, dermatophobia, enosiophobia, kakorrhaphiophobia, monopathophobia, phagophobia, sitiophobia, exculpation, idemnity and 33 more...
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pricejosephd's list
withering, finical, lope, bromide, cachet, catatonic, coadjutor, laconically, limn, exonerate, illusory, farcical and 43 more...
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