finicky

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: fin=ick=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

finicky, a. 

 Finical; unduly particular; excessively demanding over minor details.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

finicky, adj.
1 over-particular, fastidious.
2 needing much attention to detail; fiddly.

Derivative

finickiness n.

THESAURUS

finicky

accurate, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, assiduous, attentive, aware, careful, choosy, close, concentrated, conscientious, conscious, correct, critical, dainty, delicate, demanding, detailed, difficult, diligent, earnest, elaborate, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite, fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finikin, full, fuss-budgety, fussy, hard to please, heedful, intense, intent, intentive, meticulous, mindful, minute, narrow, nice, niggling, nit-picking, observant, observing, on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, particular, pawky, pernickety, persnickety, picayune, picky, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, punctilious, punctual, queasy, refined, regardful, religious, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing, special, specific, squeamish, strict, subtle, watchful

ROGET THESAURUS

finicky

Fastidiousness

N fastidiousness, nicety, hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, friandise, epicurism, omnia suspendens naso, epicure, gourmet, prudery, fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned, squeasy, queasy, hard to please, difficult to please, querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous, censorious, hypercritical, overcritical, noli me tangere.