Fussy vs Exigent - What's the difference?
fussy | exigent |
Anxious or particular about petty details.
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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy .
Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).
Urgent; needing immediate action.
* 2003 , , U.S. Department of Defence
Demanding; needing great effort.
(archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency
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(obsolete, UK, legal) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
As adjectives the difference between fussy and exigent
is that fussy is anxious or particular about petty details while exigent is urgent; needing immediate action.As a noun exigent is
(archaic) extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.fussy
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(er)Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* pedantic * pickyexigent
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(en adjective)- Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.
Derived terms
* allocatur exigentNoun
(en noun)- These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, \ Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent ;
- Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome, [Cicero 5° de finibus.] there was one or other that called for an interpreter: so lest the Church be driven to the like exigent , it is necessary to have translations in a readiness.
- (Abbott)