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What is the adjective for fussy?

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

fussy
  1. Anxious or particular about petty details.
  2. Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).
  3. Synonyms:
      4. picky, particular, fastidious, finicky, choosy, exacting, demanding, pernickety, persnickety, dainty, nice, finical, choosey, discriminating, selective, finicking, fussbudgety, delicate, punctilious, faddish, faddy, overnice, difficult, pedantic, squeamish, nitpicking, overparticular, inflexible, prissy, exact, stickling, assiduous, conscionable, fretful, heedful, obsessive, overfastidious, precious, punctual, old-maidish, over-particular, nit-picking, hard to please, nit-picky, fuddy-duddy, old maidish, picky-picky, old womanish, meticulous, critical … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “I'm very fussy about what I eat and who I eat it with.”
      “The Gustavian style, a reaction against fussy rococo interiors, originated in 1770s Sweden and is still popular.”
      “It seemed like the day had been an endless stream of fussy clients, confused contractors, and endless emails.”
fussbudgety
  1. Like a fussbudget; tending to fuss or complain about trivial matters.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fussy, picky, particular, finicky, choosy, fastidious, exacting, demanding, pernickety, dainty, finical, nice, persnickety, choosey, finicking, delicate, old-maidish, hard to please, critical, overnice, discriminating, punctilious, meticulous, careful, faddy, over-particular, nitpicking, nit-picking, faddish, selective, squeamish, pedantic, nit-picky, difficult, scrupulous, overparticular, painstaking, discerning, prissy, difficult to please, overcritical, refined, perfectionist, stickling, precise, fine, inflexible, hypercritical, pass-remarkable, over-fastidious … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “My aunt can be quite fussbudgety, always complaining about the smallest details.”
fussed
  1. (Britain, informal, usually in the negative) Bothered; concerned.
fussicky
  1. (Britain, rare) fussy; fidgety
  2. Examples:
      3. “Both teams like to wait, Wales without the ball, Portugal in fussicky possession.”
fussless
  1. Without fuss.
fussier
  1. comparative form of fussy: more fussy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pickier, finickier, choosier, daintier, nicer, faddier, difficulter, prissier, more particular, more fastidious, more exacting, more demanding, more pernickety, more persnickety, more finical, more choosey, more discriminating, more selective, more fussbudgety, more delicate, more punctilious, more faddish, more overnice, more pedantic, more squeamish, more overparticular, more inflexible, more exact, more assiduous, more conscionable, more fretful, more heedful, more obsessive, more overfastidious, more precious, more punctual, more old-maidish, more nit-picky, more meticulous, more critical, more scrupulous, more careful, more discerning, more perfectionist, more precise, more hypercritical, more captious, more overcritical, more overscrupulous, more painstaking … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Sometimes the difference in eating behavior between the species is misinterpreted as cats being fussier than dogs.”
      “When international food companies go shopping, they tend to be much fussier than any of us could be as we push a cart down a grocery store aisle.”
      “The problem is that the Chinese are getting fussier and developing their own recycling systems, so the day may come when they say they don't want ours.”
fussiest
  1. superlative form of fussy: most fussy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pickiest, finickiest, choosiest, daintiest, nicest, faddiest, difficultest, prissiest, most particular, most fastidious, most exacting, most demanding, most pernickety, most persnickety, most finical, most choosey, most discriminating, most selective, most fussbudgety, most delicate, most punctilious, most faddish, most overnice, most pedantic, most squeamish, most overparticular, most inflexible, most exact, most assiduous, most conscionable, most fretful, most heedful, most obsessive, most overfastidious, most precious, most punctual, most old-maidish, most nit-picky, most meticulous, most critical, most scrupulous, most careful, most discerning, most perfectionist, most precise, most hypercritical, most captious, most overcritical, most overscrupulous, most painstaking … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Sandwiches and finger foods are the ultimate street party foods and a good old tray bake will impress even the fussiest eaters!”
      “Cute christmas tree shapes that will please even the fussiest of party guests.”
      “Now you can have for the first time, a mobile bedroom or 'Travelpod' to make even the fussiest festivalgoer feel at home.”
fussing
  1. present participle of fuss
  2. Synonyms:
      3. worrying, disturbing, upsetting, bothering, distressing, perturbing, unsettling, agitating, discomposing, alarming, disquieting, concerning, dismaying, troubling, flurrying, discomforting, ailing, distracting, distempering, frazzling, unhinging, alaruming, exercising, hagriding, undoing, derailing, fretting, stressing, fearing, chafing, stewing, sweating, bustling, flapping, fidgeting, fidgetting, freaking out, weirding out, taking pains, labouring over, getting in a stew, getting worked up, flustering, disconcerting, rattling, unnerving, ruffling, vexing, fazing, perplexing … more
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