pointilleux — meaning in English
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English meaning
- fastidious adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
- finicky adj Overly fussy or hard to please, especially about small details.
- fussy adjective Overly concerned with small details; hard to satisfy.
- nitpicking noun The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone's hair.
- pernickety adj Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.
- picky adj Hard to please; fussy about details and demanding that things be exactly right.
- punctilious adj Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
- stickler noun A person who insists on strict adherence to rules, details, or standards.
Senses
pointilleux is used for these senses in English:
- fastidious Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
- finicky (informal, of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
- nitpicking (figuratively, by extension) A process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder.
- punctilious Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
fastidious — full definition
- adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
- adj (biology) Needing very specific conditions or nutrients to grow, and therefore difficult to culture.