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Definition of finicky : Finical; unduly particular.

Synonyms:

crabby, busy, grouchy, especial, ill-tempered, grumpy, accept, peculiar, crabbed, cross, special, nice, bad-tempered, exceptional, finical

fault-finding, derogatory, judgmental, pedantic, caviling, disparaging, carping, captious

Epicurean, picky, demanding, delicate, persnickety, careful, hypercritical, diligent, fussy, meticulous, rigorous, precise, prudish, discriminating, flawless, exacting, punctilious, discerning, scrupulous, proper, perspicacious, squeamish, dainty, critical, correct, priggish, particular, conscientious, severe, fastidious, accurate, prim, literal, mincing, methodical, qualmish, choosy

strenuous, ticklish, adverse, tight, rough, wearing, hard, formidable, burdensome, knotty, stressful, harsh, onerous, oppressive, trying, tricky, laborious, contrary, wearying, wearisome, grinding, arduous, uphill, bothersome, complex, cantankerous, troublesome, rugged, tough, difficult, cumbersome, thorny, complicated, toilsome

Usage examples:

• " Oh, no," she said warmly, " there's nothing finicky about your garden- any more than there is about you. - "Love and Lucy", Maurice Henry Hewlett.
• And now I see all the smooth frauds, all the weak people who never have purposes or passions worthy of the name, all the finicky, finger- dusting gentry with the " fine souls," who flatter themselves that their timidity is the squeamishness of superior sensibilities- I see all these feeble folk fluttering their feeble fingers in horror of me. - "The Deluge", David Graham Phillips.
• Well, Carley, are you still finicky about the eats? - "The Call of the Canyon", Zane Grey.