Antonyms for finicking
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : fin-ik |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪn ɪk |
- accepting
- bad
- clumsy
- coarse
- disagreeable
- disordered
- easy
- harsh
- healthful
- healthy
- heavy
- horrible
- imprecise
- indelicate
- indiscriminating
- inelegant
- inexact
- insensitive
- nasty
- open
- repulsive
- robust
- rough
- sloppy
- strong
- uncareful
- uncritical
- undemanding
- undiscriminating
- unfussy
- unlikable
- unmannerly
- unpleasant
- unrefined
- unscrupulous
Definition of finicking
- As in nice : adj precise, neat, refined
- As in finical : adj finicky
- As in dainty : adj finicky, particular
- As in delicate : adj fussy, discriminating
- As in finicky : adj overparticular
- "Dear niece," said Rachel, with an unusually fine and finicking accent.
- Extract from : « Aunt Rachel » by David Christie Murray
- Pelle sat there getting angrier and angrier at his finicking tone.
- Extract from : « Pelle the Conqueror, Complete » by Martin Anderson Nexo
- And the fellow was so polite and so persuasive, with his finicking eloquence.
- Extract from : « The Price of Love » by Arnold Bennett
- It was a mincing, maudlin, finicking face—it irritated her intensely.
- Extract from : « The Sorcery Club » by Elliott O'Donnell
- He's a good-looking chap, too, though rather too finicking for my taste.
- Extract from : « In Luck at Last » by Walter Besant
- The less, he mused, that one had to do with finicking feelings in this world the better.
- Extract from : « The Pool in the Desert » by Sara Jeanette Duncan
- He kept his ship in apple-pie order, which would have been seamanlike enough but for a finicking touch in its details.
- Extract from : « The Mirror of the Sea » by Joseph Conrad
- I can't have you having all sorts of finicking ideas about not doing this and not doing the other before servants.
- Extract from : « Vera » by Elisabeth von Arnim
- His later work is undoubtedly more mannered, more “finicking,” less simple, less broadly effective.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 » by Various
- Nigg′ler, one who trifles; Nigg′ling, fussiness, finicking work.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
Synonyms for finicking
- accurate
- acute
- alert
- becoming
- befitting
- careful
- choosey
- choosy
- conforming
- correct
- critical
- cultured
- dainty
- decent
- delicate
- difficult
- discerning
- discriminating
- distinguishing
- exact
- exacting
- fastidious
- fine
- finespun
- finical
- finicking
- finicky
- fussbudget
- fussy
- genteel
- gentle
- hairsplitting
- hard to please
- meticulous
- mincing
- minute
- nice
- niggling
- nit-picking
- nitpicking
- overnice
- overparticular
- particular
- perceptive
- persnickety
- picky
- proper
- prudish
- pure
- refined
- respectable
- right
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- seemly
- sensitive
- squeamish
- stickling
- strict
- subtle
- tasteful
- thin-skinned
- tidy
- trim
- trivial
- virtuous
- well-bred
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