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What is the adjective for finicking?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb finick which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

finicky
  1. (informal) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
  2. (informal) Demanding, requiring above-normal care.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. fussy, picky, particular, fastidious, choosy, exacting, demanding, pernickety, dainty, finical, persnickety, choosey, critical, finicking, fussbudgety, punctilious, delicate, scrupulous, overnice, difficult, perfectionist, overcritical, squeamish, overparticular, stickling, fussbudget, nit-picking, old-maidish, over-particular, hard to please, nit-picky, pass-remarkable, nice, meticulous, pedantic, careful, nitpicking, precise, discriminating, exact, painstaking, selective, thorough, discerning, strict, conscientious, rigorous, methodical, hypercritical, faddy … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “You may be too easily irritated or despondent, exasperating friends and family with exacting demands and finicky attitudes.”
      “The coherer was very finicky and unreliable in operation, so there was a vigorous search for an alternative.”
      “A beautiful, well constructed, accurate but finicky handgun is really not an option.”
finickity
  1. Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.
finical
  1. (college slang) Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fussy, fastidious, finicky, particular, picky, choosy, exacting, pernickety, demanding, dainty, nice, persnickety, meticulous, choosey, delicate, finicking, fussbudgety, critical, nitpicking, overparticular, niggling, old-maidish, punctilious, overnice, careful, pedantic, scrupulous, discriminating, precise, hard to please, selective, exact, perfectionist, faddy, nit-picking, painstaking, over-particular, faddish, discerning, nit-picky, squeamish, refined, hair-splitting, thorough, difficult, hypercritical, fine, detailed, overscrupulous, difficult to please … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “She said to herself that this was no time or place for finical delicacy.”
      “There is nothing finical or foppish about the conventions which Mr. Harcourt undertakes to codify and explain.”
      “Trust the precise and finical Teutons, she thought, to compress so broad a concept into a single handy term.”
finickety
  1. (colloquial) finicky; picky
finicking
  1. finical
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fussy, fastidious, finicky, particular, picky, choosy, exacting, demanding, dainty, pernickety, finical, nice, persnickety, choosey, delicate, fussbudgety, old-maidish, critical, hard to please, punctilious, meticulous, careful, overnice, faddy, discriminating, over-particular, nitpicking, faddish, nit-picky, selective, nit-picking, squeamish, pedantic, painstaking, overparticular, difficult, scrupulous, refined, precise, fine, difficult to please, overcritical, perfectionist, discerning, stickling, exact, prissy, hypercritical, detailed, pass-remarkable … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Deeply attached to old values, and seeing the rapidly changing world about him through the distorting lens of a pedantic and snobbish literary tradition, Libanius was vain, petty, and wrapped in finicking antiquarianism.”
finickier
  1. comparative form of finicky: more finicky
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fussier, pickier, choosier, daintier, difficulter, more particular, more fastidious, more exacting, more demanding, more pernickety, more finical, more persnickety, more choosey, more critical, more fussbudgety, more punctilious, more delicate, more scrupulous, more overnice, more perfectionist, more overcritical, more squeamish, more overparticular, more old-maidish, more nit-picky, more pass-remarkable, more meticulous, nicer, more pedantic, more careful, more precise, more discriminating, more exact, more painstaking, more thorough, more selective, more discerning, more conscientious, stricter, more rigorous, more methodical, more hypercritical, faddier, more detailed, more faddish, more captious, more accurate, more overscrupulous, more refined, more carping … more
finickiest
  1. superlative form of finicky: most finicky
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fussiest, pickiest, choosiest, daintiest, difficultest, most particular, most fastidious, most exacting, most demanding, most pernickety, most finical, most persnickety, most choosey, most critical, most fussbudgety, most punctilious, most delicate, most scrupulous, most overnice, most perfectionist, most overcritical, most squeamish, most overparticular, most old-maidish, most nit-picky, most pass-remarkable, most meticulous, nicest, most pedantic, most careful, most precise, most discriminating, most exact, most painstaking, most thorough, most selective, most discerning, most conscientious, strictest, most rigorous, most methodical, most hypercritical, faddiest, most detailed, most faddish, most captious, most accurate, most overscrupulous, most refined, most carping … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Even the finickiest of readers will find something to enjoy in this selection of graphic novels.”
      “For instance, some languages, like Matses in Peru, oblige their speakers, like the finickiest of lawyers, to specify exactly how they came to know about the facts they are reporting.”
      “Apart from a minor misjudgement of Kempton's first fence, it would demand the finickiest of nitpicking to find fault with his King George VI Chase win.”
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