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Very fussy
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finical
Alternative clues for the word finical
Word definitions for finical in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared" [syn: finicky , fussy , particular ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finical \Fin"i*cal\, [From Fine , a.] Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious. ``Finical taste.'' --Wordsworth. The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else. --Hazlitt. Syn: Finical , Spruce ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"fastidious, affecting extreme elegance in manners, taste, or speech," 1590s; see finicky . Related: finically ; finicality ; finick (v.), 1857.
Usage examples of finical.
The imitations of mediaeval paper, thick, harsh, and dingy, and showing the marks of the wires upon which the fabric was couched, are preferred by men of letters for books and for correspondence, while highly polished modern plate papers, with surfaces much more glossy than any preparation of vellum, are now rejected by them as finical and effeminate.
He was extremely reluctant to cut the line, both on principle and because silk was a treacherous stuff to splice, and in time he had woven the whole into a spider's web, an extraordinarily intricate piece of rigging with cunning knots, stoppers and beckets, the whole designed to concentrate two men's strength on the raising of the left-hand side of the farther slab: although he was never still, to a watcher his work seemed endless, needlessly finical, obscure.