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What is the adjective for nitpicker?

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

nitpicky
  1. Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. captious, critical, hypercritical, overcritical, censorious, quibbling, disparaging, judgemental, niggling, judgmental, disapproving, caviling, rejective, pettifogging, pedantic, nitpicking, faultfinding, criticising, criticizing, pernickety, nagging, cavilling, hairsplitting, negative, cavillous, severe, finicky, carping, demanding, exceptive, sarcastic, acrimonious, cantankerous, contrary, exacting, petty, petulant, quarrelsome, testy, fault-finding, pass-remarkable, nit-picking, hair-splitting, very critical, reproachful, unfavourable, unfavorable, querulous, damning, berating … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “More nitpicky yet, the cartons should not be photographed or filmed, sealed though they may be.”
      “There are so many rules about proper table manners that it would take forever to list every nitpicky item.”
      “Unfortunately, the only people who will appreciate this are nitpicky reviewers and geeky computer users.”
nitpickety
  1. (rare) Synonym of nitpicky
nitpickish
  1. somewhat nitpicky
nitpickier
  1. comparative form of nitpicky: more nitpicky
  2. Synonyms:
      3. severer, finickier, pettier, testier, more captious, more critical, more hypercritical, more overcritical, more censorious, more disparaging, more judgemental, more judgmental, more rejective, more pedantic, more faultfinding, more pernickety, more nagging, more negative, more cavillous, more carping, more demanding, more sarcastic, more acrimonious, more cantankerous, more contrary, more exacting, more petulant, more quarrelsome, more pass-remarkable, more reproachful, more unfavourable, more unfavorable, more querulous, more damning, more condemnatory, more deprecatory, more scathing, more overnice, pickier, judgier, more reproving, more castigatory, more denunciatory, more contemptuous, sterner, fussier, more pejorative, more pharisaic, more calumniatory, more cutting … more
nitpickiest
  1. superlative form of nitpicky: most nitpicky
  2. Synonyms:
      3. severest, finickiest, pettiest, testiest, most captious, most critical, most hypercritical, most overcritical, most censorious, most disparaging, most judgemental, most judgmental, most rejective, most pedantic, most faultfinding, most pernickety, most nagging, most negative, most cavillous, most carping, most demanding, most sarcastic, most acrimonious, most cantankerous, most contrary, most exacting, most petulant, most quarrelsome, most pass-remarkable, most reproachful, most unfavourable, most unfavorable, most querulous, most damning, most condemnatory, most deprecatory, most scathing, most overnice, pickiest, judgiest, most reproving, most castigatory, most denunciatory, most contemptuous, sternest, fussiest, most pejorative, most pharisaic, most cutting, most cynical … more
nitpicked
  1. simple past tense and past participle of nitpick
  2. Synonyms:
      3. carped, cavilled, caviled, fussed, complained, quibbled, criticised, criticized, niggled, found fault, split hairs, picked holes, grumbled, groused, moaned, whined, whinged, beefed, bellyached, grouched, bleated, nagged, objected, griped, pettifogged, found fault with, kvetched, grizzled, grumped, inveighed, denounced, kicked up a fuss, picked holes in, muttered, growled, wailed, screamed, keened, murmured, caterwauled, repined, chuntered, whimpered, crabbed, hollered, squealed, hypercriticized, created, mithered, squawked … more
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