Usually means: Excessively fussy about small details.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. persnickety: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. persnickety: Merriam-Webster
  3. persnickety, persnickety: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. persnickety: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. persnickety: Collins English Dictionary
  6. persnickety: Vocabulary.com
  7. Persnickety, persnickety: Wordnik
  8. persnickety: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. persnickety: Wiktionary
  10. persnickety: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. persnickety: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. persnickety: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. persnickety: Dictionary.com
  14. persnickety: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. persnickety: Rhymezone
  16. persnickety: FreeDictionary.org
  17. persnickety: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Persnickety: The Word Detective
  19. persnickety: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persnickety: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persnickety: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Persnickety: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  US standard form of pernickety. [(chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.]

Similar:
pernickety, fastidious, proud, stuck-up, uppish, bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, fussy, more...

Opposite:
easygoing, laid-back, relaxed, unpretentious

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Similar:
pernickety, fastidious, proud, stuck-up, uppish, bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, fussy, more...

Opposite:
easygoing, laid-back, relaxed, unpretentious

Colors:
    lavender,     periwinkle,     chartreuse,     mauve,     teal, more...



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