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Squeamish vs Finical - What's the difference?

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Squeamish is a related term of finical.


As adjectives the difference between squeamish and finical

is that squeamish is easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous while finical is finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.

squeamish

English

Alternative forms

* sweamish, swaimish (dialectal) * squeimish, squemish, squeamous (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous
  • He might have made a good doctor, had he not been so squeamish about the sight of blood.

    finical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), (Ulysses) :
  • Charming, he said in a finical sweet voice, showing his white teeth and blinking his eyes pleasantly.

    Derived terms

    * finick * finicking

    See also

    * jaunty