FINICKIER Synonyms

• annoyed and irritable

• overcrowded or cluttered with detail

• exacting especially about details

• difficult to please

• marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws

• at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction

• characterized by careful evaluation and judgment

• being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency

• of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism

• urgently needed; absolutely necessary

• forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis

• requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill

• having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• requiring precise accuracy

• exacting especially about details

• marked by precise accordance with details

• marked by extreme care in treatment of details

• a fact about some part (as opposed to general)

• a small part that can be considered separately from the whole

• (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class

• unique or specific to a person or thing or category

• separate and distinct from others of the same group or category

• surpassing what is common or usual or expected

• first and most important

• exacting especially about details

• providing specific details or circumstances

• (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant

• characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details

• exacting especially about details