Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Finicky.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.
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- adjective
Finicky ,fastidious , overlyprecise ordelicate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective exacting especially about details
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The people's pressing work deals with housing, finical, jobs, and health care issues.
Senate hearing probes fairness of Bowl Championship Series 2009
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Bald faced lying to the American public to start a war, bringing back torture, the administration that brought about finical collapse.
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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.
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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.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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This medicare buy in is payed for by peoples premiums, it does nothing to the finical state of medicare for old people.
Matthew Yglesias » Grayson Introduces Public Option Act 2010
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This medicare buy in is payed for by peoples premiums, it does nothing to the finical state of medicare for old people.
Matthew Yglesias » Grayson Introduces Public Option Act 2010
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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.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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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.
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This medicare buy in is payed for by peoples premiums, it does nothing to the finical state of medicare for old people.
Matthew Yglesias » Grayson Introduces Public Option Act 2010
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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.
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