fussy

1. 1.

   annoyed and irritable

   Synonymscrabbedcrabbycrossgrouchygrumpybad-temperedill-tempered

   Similarill-natured
2. 2.

   overcrowded or cluttered with detail

   “a busy painting”

   “a fussy design”

   Synonymsbusy

   Similarfancy
3. 3.

   exacting especially about details

   “a finicky eater”

   “fussy about clothes”

   “very particular about how her food was prepared”

   Synonymsfinicalfinickyparticularpicky

   Similarfastidious

Other forms of fussy

comparative or superlative

fussier

comparative or superlative

fussiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fussy

What does fussy mean?

fussy means "annoyed and irritable". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fussy?

fussy has 2 syllables: fus-sy. The stress falls on "fus". In IPA it is /ˈfʌsi/.

What is another word for fussy?

Close synonyms include crabbed, crabby, cross, grouchy, grumpy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fussy a common word?

fussy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.