Dictionary Definition
picky adj : marked by extreme care in treatment
of details; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous
in his business formalities" [syn: meticulous] [also: pickiest, pickier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪki
Adjective
- Fussy;
particular; demanding to have things just
right.
- I am very picky about the way my kitchen works.
Synonyms
Noun
- In the context of "informal": A picture.
Quotations
- 1988 Alan
Hollinghurst,
The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books, paperback edition,
page 44
- And who knows, I might do a few pickies of you - fully clothed, needless to say.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, critical, dainty, discriminating, discriminative, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, meticulous, nice, particular, perfectionistic,
persnickety,
precise, precisianistic, priggish, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, strict