Synonyms of the word fussy


FUSSYBAD-TEMPERED - BUSY - CRABBED - CRABBY - CROSS - FANCY - FASTIDIOUS - FINICAL - FINICKY - GROUCHY - GRUMPY - ILL-NATURED - ILL-TEMPERED - PARTICULAR - PICKY

fussy

  • adj. Anxious or particular about petty details.
  • adj. Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).

bad-tempered

  • adj. Of or pertaining to bad temper; showing anger easily or customarily.

busy

  • adj. Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
  • adj. Engaged in activity or by someone else.
  • adj. Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
  • adj. Officious; meddling.
  • v. (transitive) To make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
  • v. (transitive) To rush somebody.
  • n. (slang, Britain, Liverpudlian, derogatory) A police officer.

crabbed

  • adj. Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
  • adj. Cramped, bent.
  • adj. (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of crab.

crabby

  • adj. visibly irritated or annoyed; grouchy, irritable, in a foul mood; given to complaining or finding fault…
  • adj. crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.

cross

  • n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least…
  • n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese…
  • n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute…
  • n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
  • n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
  • n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a…
  • n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
  • n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other.
  • n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
  • n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
  • n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
  • n. (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
  • n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place…
  • n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross).
  • n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross…
  • n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
  • n. A line drawn across or through another line.
  • n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
  • n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
  • n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
  • adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
  • adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
  • adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
  • adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
  • adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
  • prep. (archaic) across.
  • prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
  • v. To make or form a cross.
  • v. To move relatively.
  • v. (social) To oppose.
  • v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
  • v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited…

fancy

  • n. The imagination.
  • n. An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea.
  • n. An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; an impression.
  • n. A whim.
  • n. Love or amorous attachment.
  • n. The object of inclination or liking.
  • n. Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
  • n. The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
  • n. A diamond with a distinctive colour.
  • n. That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
  • n. (obsolete) A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
  • n. In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
  • adj. Decorative.
  • adj. Of a superior grade.
  • adj. Executed with skill.
  • adj. (colloquial) Unnecessarily complicated.
  • adj. (obsolete) Extravagant; above real value.
  • v. (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
  • v. (Britain) would like.
  • v. (Britain, informal) To be sexually attracted to.
  • v. (dated) To imagine, suppose.
  • v. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
  • v. To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.

fastidious

  • adj. Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
  • adj. Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
  • adj. Difficult to please; quick to find fault.

finical

  • adj. (college slang) Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.

finicky

  • adj. (informal) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
  • adj. (informal) Demanding, requiring above-normal care.

grouchy

  • adj. (originally college slang) Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.

grumpy

  • adj. Unhappy, dissatisfied and/or irritable.

ill-natured

  • adj. Having a bad nature, whether.

ill-tempered

  • adj. Synonym of bad-tempered.

particular

  • adj. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
  • adj. Specific; discrete; concrete.
  • adj. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
  • adj. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
  • adj. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
  • adj. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
  • adj. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
  • adj. (law) Containing a part only; limited.
  • adj. (law) Holding a particular estate.
  • adj. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a…
  • n. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
  • n. (obsolete) A person's own individual case.
  • n. (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class…

picky

  • adj. Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
  • n. (informal) A picture.

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