Fussy \Fuss"y\, a. [Compar. Fussier; superl. Fussiest.]
Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about
trifles; overnice; fidgety.
[1913 Webster]
Not at all fussy about his personal appearance. --R. G.
White.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fussy
adj 1: perversely irritable [syn: crabbed, crabby, cross, grouchy,
grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered]
2: overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a
fussy design" [syn: busy]
3: exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy
about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was
prepared" [syn: finical, finicky, particular]
[also: fussiest, fussier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "fussy":
Byzantine, accurate, agitated, arabesque, attentive, baroque,
bustling, busy, chichi, choosy, close, conscientious, conscionable,
correct, critical, dainty, delicate, demanding, detailed,
difficult, discriminating, elaborate, elegant, exact, exacting,
exigent, exquisite, fancy, fastidious, fidgety, fine, finical,
finicking, finicky, finikin, flamboyant, florid, flowery,
fluttering, fluttery, fretful, frilly, full, fuss-budgety, fussing,
gingerbread, hard to please, heedful, high-wrought, hopping,
humming, hustling, irritable, jumpy, labored, lively, luxuriant,
luxurious, meticulous, minute, moresque, narrow, nice, nit-picking,
ornate, ostentatious, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored,
overworked, overwrought, painstaking, particular, pawky,
pernickety, persnickety, picayune, picky, picturesque, popping,
precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretty-pretty,
punctilious, punctual, queasy, querulous, refined, religious,
restive, restless, rich, rigid, rigorous, rococo, scrupulous,
scrutinizing, special, specific, squeamish, strict, subtle, tense,
turbulent, uneasy, unquiet, unrestful, unsettled
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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