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Finical

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Finicky.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Affecting great nicety or extreme elegance; overnice; unduly particular about trifles; fastidious: same as finikin.

Synonyms Finical, Spruce, Foppish. Finical applies to an overwrought delicacy of taste in manners, dress, and speech; spruce, to appearance, especially dress, a Spruce person being too conspicuously trim for elegance or dignity; foppish, to absorption in the vanities of dress. All these words are applied especially to men. See coxcomb.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. exacting especially about details

Word Usage

"With each of your volunteer help of 4 hours this July collecting signatures from your neighbors and finical donations, the citizens of Portland will hold Sam Adams accountable for willfully lying to us to get elected, orchestration of an elaborate cover-up and abusing the power we granted him."

Equivalent

fastidious

Cross Reference

jaunty

Form

finick finicking

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

foppish spruce overnice fastidious

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

egg-headed punctilious self-luminous hypercritical squeamish over-dressed coxcombical qualmish foppish taste