FINICKY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does finicky mean? 

• FINICKY (adjective)
  The adjective FINICKY has 1 sense:

1. exacting especially about details

  Familiarity information: FINICKY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINICKY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exacting especially about details

Synonyms:

finical; finicky; fussy; particular; picky

Context example:

very particular about how her food was prepared

Similar:

fastidious (giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness)

 Context examples 

They walk across the bright stage of English history with their finicky step, their preposterous cravats, their high collars, their dangling seals, and they vanish into those dark wings from which there is no return.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was finicky.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)