Finicky vs Finickety - What's the difference?
finicky | finickety |
(informal) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
(informal) Demanding, requiring above-normal care.
(colloquial) finicky; picky
* {{quote-book, 2003, , Death of Riley
, passage=She'd be crotchety and finickety . Old spinsters always are.}}
As adjectives the difference between finicky and finickety
is that finicky is fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details while finickety is finicky; picky.finicky
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Adjective
(en-adj)- ''The baby was finicky until her diaper was changed.
- The lawnmower is a bit finicky in cold weather.
Usage notes
* The forms (finickier) and (finickiest) also exist, but are quite rare, and perhaps nonstandard. The forms (term) and (term) are much more common, and certainly standard.Synonyms
* fastidious, fussy * SeeDerived terms
* finickiness * finickityfinickety
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Adjective
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