Persnickety is a lively, fancy word for “fussy.” If you've sent your salad back to the kitchen three times, you might be a persnickety eater. The adjective persnickety sounds prickly like a porcupine, and persnickety people can indeed be sharp and prickly when they don't get things precisely as they wish.
What does it mean when someone is persnickety?
1a : fussy about small details : fastidious a persnickety teacher. b : having the characteristics of a snob. 2 : requiring great precision a persnickety job.
How do you use the word persnickety?
Persnickety in a Sentence ?
- The persnickety housewife couldn't stand for anything to be out of place in her perfect home.
- My boss's persnickety personality causes her to micromanage the entire office, always wanting to make every little decision herself.
