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say it: PIK-ee
picky is an adjective meaning "exacting especially about details". It carries one recorded sense.
exacting especially about details
“a finicky eater”
“fussy about clothes”
“very particular about how her food was prepared”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for picky come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.