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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: annoyed and irritable [syn: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill- tempered]
2: overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design" [syn: busy, fussy]
3: exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared" [syn: finical, finicky, fussy, particular, picky]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (fussier; -est) Date: 1831 1. easily upset ; irritable 2. overly decorative <a fussy wallpaper pattern> 3. a. requiring or giving close attention to details <fussy bookkeeping procedures> b. revealing a sometimes extreme concern for niceties ; fastidious, picky • fussily adverb • fussiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (fussier, fussiest) 1 inclined to fuss. 2 full of unnecessary detail or decoration. 3 fastidious. Derivatives: fussily adv. fussiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fussy Fuss"y, a. [Compar. Fussier; superl Fussiest.] Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety. Not at all fussy about his personal appearance. --R. G. White.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(fussier, fussiest) 1. Someone who is fussy is very concerned with unimportant details and is difficult to please. She is not fussy about her food... Her aunt was small, with a rather fussy manner. ADJ: oft ADJ about n [disapproval] 2. If you describe things such as clothes and furniture as fussy, you are criticizing them because they are too elaborate or detailed. We are not very keen on floral patterns and fussy designs. ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Bustling, fidgety, busy about trifles, making needless ado, making a great ado.

Moby Thesaurus

Byzantine, accurate, agitated, arabesque, attentive, baroque, bustling, busy, chichi, choosy, close, conscientious, conscionable, correct, critical, dainty, delicate, demanding, detailed, difficult, discriminating, elaborate, elegant, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite, fancy, fastidious, fidgety, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, flamboyant, florid, flowery, fluttering, fluttery, fretful, frilly, full, fuss-budgety, fussing, gingerbread, hard to please, heedful, high-wrought, hopping, humming, hustling, irritable, jumpy, labored, lively, luxuriant, luxurious, meticulous, minute, moresque, narrow, nice, nit-picking, ornate, ostentatious, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, painstaking, particular, pawky, pernickety, persnickety, picayune, picky, picturesque, popping, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretty-pretty, punctilious, punctual, queasy, querulous, refined, religious, restive, restless, rich, rigid, rigorous, rococo, scrupulous, scrutinizing, special, specific, squeamish, strict, subtle, tense, turbulent, uneasy, unquiet, unrestful, unsettled