pikkumainen — meaning in English

English meaning

• nitpicky adj Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
• pedantic adj Overly focused on formal rules, minor details, or technical correctness, often to an annoying degree.

Senses

pikkumainen is used for these senses in English:

• begrudging grudgeful, envious
• captious Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.
• nitpicky Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
• pedantic Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.

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