PICKY Synonyms

• annoyed and irritable

• overcrowded or cluttered with detail

• exacting especially about 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

• difficult to please

• exercising caution or showing care or attention

• cautiously attentive

• unhurried and with care and dignity

• full of cares or anxiety

• mindful of the future in spending money

• 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

• something considered choice to eat

• delicately beautiful

• especially pleasing to the taste

• excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

• showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

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

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• requiring precise accuracy

• giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness

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

• marked by precise accordance with details

• marked by extreme care in treatment of details

• (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant

• characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details

• having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled

• characterized by extreme care and great effort

• tending to select; characterized by careful choice

• characterized by very careful or fastidious selection

• excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

• pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives

• select as an alternative over another

• see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way

• exacting especially about details

• marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

• a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

• a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format