Picky vs Exigent - What's the difference?
picky | exigent |
Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
(informal) A picture.
* 1988 , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 44
Urgent; needing immediate action.
* 2003 , , U.S. Department of Defence
Demanding; needing great effort.
(archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency
* 1591 ,
* 1611 ,
(obsolete, UK, legal) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
As adjectives the difference between picky and exigent
is that picky is fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right while exigent is urgent; needing immediate action.As nouns the difference between picky and exigent
is that picky is a picture while exigent is extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.picky
English
Adjective
(er)- I am very picky about the way my kitchen works.
Synonyms
* fussy * particular * anal retentive * finicky * pedantic * choosy * See alsoNoun
(pickies)- And who knows, I might do a few pickies of you - fully clothed, needless to say.
Alternative forms
* piccySynonyms
* picexigent
English
Adjective
(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)