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finickity | null |

As an adjective finickity

is fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

finickity

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
  • , year=1993 , date=7 October , author=David Covey , title=Re: unix is user-friendly , newsgroup=comp.unix.user-friendly citation , accessdate=2008-09-21 , passage=It's great when you've taken the time to have persuade someone to explain to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1997 , author=Neil Tennant , title=The Taming of the True citation , isbn=0199251606 , page=327 , passage=We see, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use one may make of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule like the rule of conditional proof. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2005 , author=House of Commons International Development Committee, Parliament of Great Britain , title=Development assistance in Iraq: Interim Report : Seventh Report of Session 2004-05 citation , isbn=0215024230 , page=9 , passage=Q62 Mr Bercow: But £86 million is very precise. It is not £85 million, it is not £90 milllion; it is £86 million. I am sorry if you think I am being finickity'; I am being very ' finickity about it but I believe rightly. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2005 , author=Michael Winner , title=Winner Takes All citation , isbn=1861058403 , page=11 , passage=I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue. }}

    Synonyms

    * See

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----