pernickety

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more pernicketymost pernickety

Superlative

persnickety

1.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK)(chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.
Đồng nghĩa: niggly, persnickety, anal-retentive, choosy, conscientious, dainty, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finickity, finicky, finikin, fussy, hypercritical, lily-handed, meticulous, niggly, nitpickish, nit-picky, nitty, overcritical, overscrupulous, particular, pedantic, pernickety, persnickety, picky
2.
Requiring attention to minor details.

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Đồng nghĩa

niggly persnicketyanal-retentivechoosyconscientiousdaintyexactingfastidiousfinicalfinickingfinickityfinickyfinikinfussyhypercriticallily-handedmeticulousnitpickishnit-pickynitty

Cùng gốc / liên quan

finickitypernicketilypernicketiness

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Nguồn gốc từ

From pernickety, persnickety, apparently from per- + nick (a notch, mark, cutting retort) + -et + -y; equivalent to English per- + nick + -ety; marked up, then overly precise. The alternative form persnickety, with s, may be due to substitution of sneck for nick.