pernickety

Signification (Anglais)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.
2. Requiring attention to minor details.

Concepts

tatillon

pointilleux

chipoteur

fastidieux

Synonymes

fastidious

fussy

persnickety

meticulous

squeamish

finicky

punctilious

overparticular

finical

flighty

maggoty

moody

nit-picking

overnice

particular

pedantic

picky

prim

quirky

scrupulous

ticklish

wanton

wayward

whimsical

faddy

nitpicky

capricious

persnickety

captious

choosy

cranky

crotchety

discriminating

donnish

fault-finding

Traductions

meticuloso

quisquilloso

teer

λεπτολόγος

meticoloso

puntiglioso

elegans

kieskeurig

moeilijk

netelig

peuterig

pietepeuterig

pietluttig

muggenzifterig

escrupulós

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pɜː(ɹ)ˈnɪk.ɪ.ti/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Scots pernickety, persnickety, apparently from per- + nick (“a notch, mark, cutting retort”) + -et (“-ed”) + -y; equivalent to English per- + nick + -ety; literally, “marked up”, then “overly precise”. The alternative form persnickety, with s, may be due to substitution of Scots sneck (“a cut, notch”) for nick.
Compare also Scots variants pernicked, pernicket, pirnicky, and pernicky.