Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Insisting capriciously on getting just what one wants; difficult to please; fastidious: a finicky eater.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as finikin.
Wiktionary
- adj. informal Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
- adj. informal Demanding, requiring above-normal care.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. exacting especially about details
Etymologies
- From finicking, from finical, from fine (Wiktionary)
- From finick, a finical person, from finical. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“On the other hand, no one that stands in finicky dread of it and similar diseases can afford to travel in the South Seas.”
“For example, what the researchers term a "finicky slow student" - one obsessed with constant review at a very slow pace - will never perfectly learn a given topic.”
“Poinsettias, for example, are known as finicky plants that crave dark more than light, and which will die without that proper care.”
“Sometimes that kind of finicky analysis can indeed ruin the magic, but it can also improve one's appreciation of a truly great work.”
“Chicken doesn't mean you're demure; it means you're "finicky" echoes Sloane Crosley.”
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“Because the particles block direct sunlight more than diffuse rays, they also alter the balance of radiation reaching Earth's surface, with unknown consequences for plants that can be kind of finicky about the kind of sunlight they need.”
“These people put their time in by performing numerous tasks, including starting, marshaling, first aid, placating "finicky" golfers, janitorial work, cart maintenance and, of course, lessons to beginning golfers.”
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“I was exceedingly particular and "finicky" about my food.”
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“And an agency supervisor wrote that because other jails were "finicky" about accepting detainees with known medical problems like Mr. Romero's, such people would continue to be placed at the Bergen jail as "a last resort.”
“And an agency supervisor wrote that because other jails were "finicky" about accepting detainees with known medical problems like Romero's, such people would continue to be placed at the Bergen jail as "a last resort.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘finicky’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Unknown
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It's Complicated
Words about complication, complexity.
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incandescent
these I like very much
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Kitten Is:
Mere days ago, I found a five-week-old kitten abandoned in the median of the Avenue we live on. She was in terrible shape, but is doing great now thanks to love and dedication.
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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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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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everythingecstatic's Words
cadence, frenetic, eloquence, paradigm, nocturne, elusive, effervescence, soliloquy, plethora, elision, aqueous, transcend and 166 more...
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supine, distaff, lest, janissary, articulator, chaos, scrumptious, charlatan, alacrity, papyrus, corollary, funicular and 106 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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