Meaning of FUSSY
| Pronunciation: | | 'fusee
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- [adj] exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"
- [adj] perversely irritable
- [adj] overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
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| | Synonyms: | | bad-tempered, busy, crabbed, crabby, cross, fancy, fastidious, finical, finicky, grouchy, grumpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, particular |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fuss"y\, a. [Compar. {Fussier}; superl {Fussiest}.]
Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about
trifles; overnice; fidgety.
Not at all fussy about his personal appearance. --R. G.
White.
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| | Related Terms: | | accurate, agitated, arabesque, attentive, baroque, bustling, busy, Byzantine, 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 |
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