Pernickety

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Persnickety.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Finical or fussy; full of petty details.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of persons,precise in trifles; fastidious; fussily particular, especially in dress or about trifles.
  • Of things, requiring minute attention or painstaking labor; characterized by petty details.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details
    • Equivalent
    fastidious    pernicketty   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    persnickety    fastidious   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    old lady    vulgar-looking    riding-skirt    drefful    overanxious   
     
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