finicky

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I was a Fedora fan for a long time, but Fedora became increasingly finicky about where it would install.

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exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"

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adjective

exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for finicky.

adjective

exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"

See also: finical, fussy, particular, picky

Example sentences

I was a Fedora fan for a long time, but Fedora became increasingly finicky about where it would install.

This comes across to the user as being slow and finicky.- Basic UI paradigms are behind what the community is pushing.

But if most folks are like the cranky, older version of me now, if they wanted finicky transportation that needs constant maintenance they'd buy a horse.

* It inclines you towards finicky accounting, the kind that charges a customer for a 45 minute phone conversation.

No type checking, yet incredibly brittle, finicky and incomprehensible type errors at run time.

Mail server software is also notoriously finicky and every minute you spend administering it is time that doesn't move your business forward.

For the signal/telecom EE types, black start is kind of like having a very high power finicky high gain amplifier with no decent termination and no real input and not much control, the odds of that dude deciding to oscillate are unfortunately high.