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variants:
or choosey
Synonyms & Antonyms of choosy
1
hard to please
- a choosy dog who refuses all but the fanciest food
Synonyms for choosy
- dainty,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fussbudgety,
- fussy,
- nice,
- old-maidish,
- particular,
- pernickety
- [chiefly British],
- persnickety,
- picky
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2
tending to select carefully
- a choosy man when it came to clothes for the office
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“Choosy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choosy. Accessed 25 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of choosy was in 1862
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