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picky (pikē)

adjective picki·er, picki·est

Informal overly fastidious or exacting; fussy

Etymology: pick + -y

picky Usage Examples

Preposition: about

  • thing: And it doesn't even have to be specific to the Harry Potter fandom if you're picky about these things.
  • food: Getting off the beaten track will mean you can't be picky about food or accomodations.
  • format: The film industry is very, very picky about format.

Preposition: of

  • palate: Moorish and Berber dishes to delight even the most picky of palates.

Modifies a noun

  • eater: Many clients tell me their fat dog or cat is a picky eater.
  • eating: Ask Our Experts: Toddler Hates Chunky Food When does picky eating become a threat to a toddler's health?
  • person: You have made a very picky lunchtime person very happy!
  • point: Very minor picky point tho, and it ' s just because I'm jealous!
  • bunch: In that time we've really become a picky bunch of people.
  • taste: Personality: Mature, has picky taste; knows what she wants.

Modifying Another Word

  • notoriously: Design Surfers are notoriously picky about the sites that they visit.
  • too: Or I can charge him with not being too picky about who his friends are.
  • very: Tutor Criteria We are very picky about our tutors!
  • rather: Databases are rather picky creatures; one key letter read wrong by the database creator can throw a huge monkey wrench into your search.
  • really: If you want to be REALLY picky, you could say it's firmware based.
  • quite: Since becoming artistic director at London's Old Vic theater you've become quite picky with your film roles.

Used with adjective complement

  • get: I guess the clients of spam companies are starting to get pickier about the quality of the lists.
  • become: Since becoming artistic director at London's Old Vic theater you've become quite picky with your film roles.
  • seem: It does seem picky about which brands it wants to crush.
  • sound: I am a pedestrian and, without sounding picky, I was there first.

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