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What is "fussy" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does fussy mean in English? Meaning of fussy definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "fussy" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "fussy": annoyed and irritable

Adjective

  • Meaning: annoyed and irritable
  • Synonyms: bad-tempered crabbed crabby cross fussy grouchy grumpy ill-tempered
  • Similar: ill-natured

    • Meaning of "fussy": overcrowded or cluttered with detail

    Adjective

  • Meaning: overcrowded or cluttered with detail
  • Example: a busy painting a fussy design
  • Synonyms: busy fussy
  • Similar: fancy

    • Meaning of "fussy": exacting especially about details

    Adjective

  • Meaning: exacting especially about details
  • Example: a finicky eater fussy about clothes very particular about how her food was prepared
  • Synonyms: finical finicky fussy particular picky
  • Similar: fastidious
  • Adjective: Anxious or particular about petty details. 1915, George A. Birmingham, Gossamer, chapterI: It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.1915, George A. Birmingham, Gossamer, chapterI: It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).

    • Synonyms:

    scrupulous, choosy, discriminating, squeamish, conscientious, finicky, careful, dainty, difficult, exact, exacting, fastidious, fretful, fuddy-duddy, heedful, painstaking, persnickety, picky, punctilious, punctual, querulous, finical, conscionable, hard to please, nit-picking, overfastidious, picky-picky, stickling,

    Antonyms:

    unscrupulous, uncritical, careless, undemanding, unfussy,

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