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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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 (pickier; -est) Date: 1900 fussy, choosy <a picky eater>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (pickier, pickiest) colloq. excessively fastidious; choosy. Derivatives: pickiness n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is picky is difficult to please and only likes a small range of things. (INFORMAL) Some people are very picky about who they choose to share their lives with... = fussy ADJ [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, critical, dainty, discriminating, discriminative, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, meticulous, nice, particular, perfectionistic, persnickety, precise, precisianistic, priggish, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, strict