pernickety

per·nick·e·ty  (pr-nk-t)

adj.

Persnickety.

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[Origin unknown.]

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pernickety [pəˈnɪkɪtɪ] US, persnickety

adj Informal

1. excessively precise and attentive to detail; fussy

2. (of a task) requiring close attention; exacting

[originally Scottish, of unknown origin]

pernicketiness  US, persnicketiness n

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

pernickety - characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher" persnickety fastidious - giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"

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pernickety

adjective (Informal) fussy, particular, careful, exacting, carping, painstaking, fastidious, picky (informal), nit-picking (informal), finicky, punctilious, anal retentive, difficult to please, hairsplitting, overprecise He's very pernickety about neatness.
fussy slack, careless, sloppy, lax, haphazard, uncritical, slapdash, heedless, slipshod, inattentive, easy to please

Translations

pernickety [pəˈnɪkɪtɪ] ADJ [person] → quisquilloso, remilgado; [task] → delicado
she's pernickety about food → es exigente para la comida
he's terribly pernickety about punctuality → tiene la manía de la puntualidad

pernickety [pə^rˈnɪkəti] adj

[person] → pointilleux/euse, tatillon(ne)

[task] → minutieux/euse

pernickety

adj (inf) → pingelig (inf); (= tricky, delicate) work, point → heikel

pernickety [pəˈnɪkətɪ] adj (fam) (person) → pignolo/a (000) (job) → da certosino