pernickety English

Meaning pernickety meaning

What does pernickety mean?

pernickety

— adjective (= persnickety) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details a persnickety job a persnickety school teacher

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pernickety English » English

fastidious

persnickety

meticulous

fussy

squeamish

punctilious

overparticular

whimsical

wayward

wanton

ticklish

scrupulous

quirky

prim

picky

particular

overnice

nitpicky

nit-picking

moody

maggoty

flighty

finicky

finical

fault-finding

faddy

donnish

discriminating

crotchety

cranky

choosy

captious

capricious