picky

picky

adjective

Definition of PICKY

1

hard to please <a picky cat who would only eat one particular kind of food, and only if it was served in his special dish>

Synonyms choosy (or choosey), dainty, delicate, demanding, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, fussbudgety, fussy, nice, old-maidish, particular, pernickety [chiefly British], persnickety, picky

Related Words hyperfastidious, overdemanding, ultrafastidious; discerning, discriminating, selective; insightful, knowledgeable; captious, carping, caviling (or cavilling), critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical; careful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulous; queasy (also queazy), squeamish; peevish, petulant, prickly, touchy; niminy-piminy, prim, prissy

Near Antonyms affable, breezy, carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, lackadaisical, laid-back, low-pressure, relaxed; flexible, lax, loose; lenient, permissive; uncritical; indiscriminating, undiscriminating

Antonyms undemanding, unfastidious, unfussy

2

tending to select carefully <she's picky, but she always finds the best quality in fresh meat and fish>

Synonyms choosy (or choosey), particular, picky

Related Words nice; fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy; discerning, discriminating, judicious

Near Antonyms indiscriminate, indiscriminating

Antonyms nonselective, unselective