Pernickety

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pernickety \Per*nick"et*y\, Pernicketty \Per*nick"et*ty\, a.
     Finical or fussy; full of petty details. [Colloq.]
  
     Syn: finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, painstaking,
          persnickety, punctilious.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 + PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pernickety
       adj : characterized by excessive precision and attention to
             trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety
             school teacher" [syn: {persnickety}]