finickity
/fəˈnɪk.ɪ.ti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /fəˈnɪk.ɪ.ti/
Inflected Forms
more finickity (comparative)
most finickity (superlative)