picky

1. 1.

   exacting especially about details

   “a finicky eater”

   “fussy about clothes”

   “very particular about how her food was prepared”

   Synonymsfinicalfinickyfussyparticular

   Similarfastidious

Other forms of picky

comparative or superlative

pickier

comparative or superlative

pickiest

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 picky

What does picky mean?

picky means "exacting especially about details".

How many syllables are in picky?

picky has 2 syllables: pic-ky. The stress falls on "pic". In IPA it is /ˈpɪki/.

What is another word for picky?

Close synonyms include finical, finicky, fussy, particular. 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 picky a common word?

picky 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.