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persnickety
Overview of adj persnickety
The adj persnickety has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish -- ((used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety")
2. pernickety, persnickety -- (characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher")
Antonyms of adj persnickety
2 senses of persnickety
Sense 1
bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish
INDIRECT (VIA proud) -> humble
Sense 2
pernickety, persnickety
INDIRECT (VIA fastidious) -> unfastidious
Similarity of adj persnickety
2 senses of persnickety
Sense 1
bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish
=> proud (vs. humble)
Sense 2
pernickety, persnickety
=> fastidious (vs. unfastidious)
Pertainyms of adj persnickety
Attributes of adj persnickety
Domain of adj persnickety
Domain Terms of adj persnickety
Familiarity of adj persnickety
persnickety used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj persnickety
persnickety
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