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Translate fussiness from English to French

Summary

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fussy:
- exigeant; délicat; difficile à contenter
Wiktionary:
- fussy → pointilleux, affairé, chipoteur, tatillon
- fussy → difficile, mesquin, minutieux

English

Detailed Translations for fussiness from English to French

fussiness:

Translation Matrix for fussiness:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	choler; crossness; fretfulness; irritability; peevishness; petulance

Related Words for "fussiness":

fussy

Synonyms for "fussiness":

irritability; crossness; fretfulness; peevishness; petulance; choler; ill humor; ill humour; distemper
ornateness; elaborateness

Related Definitions for "fussiness":

unnecessary elaborateness in details¹
an irritable petulant feeling¹

fussy:

fussy adj

fussy (picky; choosy)
exigeant; délicat; difficile à contenter
- exigeant adj
- délicat adj
- difficile à contenter adj

Translation Matrix for fussy:

Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	bad-tempered; busy; crabbed; crabby; cross; finical; finicky; grouchy; grumpy; ill-tempered; particular; picky
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	bustling; pernickety; squeamish
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
difficile à contenter	choosy; fussy; picky
délicat	choosy; fussy; picky	acutely; awkward; burdensome; choice; contested; controversial; critical; dainty; debatable; delicate; delicious; delightful; difficult; disputable; disputed; dubious; easily hurt; elegant; elite; exquisite; fine; fragile; frail; graceful; handsome; hard; heavenly; heavy; highly-strung; imputable; lovely; massive; nice; open to question; oversensitive; painful; perilous; personable; petite; precarious; pretty; problematic; problematical; questionable; refined; review; select; sensitive; skinny; slender; slight; slim; smartly; snap; sophisticated; stiff; stylish; subtle; subtly; superior; susceptible; tender; touchy; tough; uncertain; very pretty; very tasteful; vulnerable; weak; worrisome
exigeant	choosy; fussy; picky	demanding; exacting; hard to please; hindrance-causing; strenuous

Related Words for "fussy":

fussiness, fussier, fussiest

Synonyms for "fussy":

crabbed; crabby; cross; grouchy; grumpy; bad-tempered; ill-tempered; ill-natured
busy; fancy
finical; finicky; particular; picky; fastidious

Related Definitions for "fussy":

exacting especially about details¹
- fussy about clothes¹
annoyed and irritable¹
overcrowded or cluttered with detail¹
- a fussy design¹

Wiktionary Translations for fussy:

fussy

adjective

particular about details
- fussy → pointilleux

fussy

adjective

Qui a bien des affaires, qui est occupé.
- affairé → fussy
individu pointilleux
- chipoteur → fussy; nitpicky; pernickety
(familier, fr) Qui est trop minutieux, qui attache de l’importance aux moindres détails.
- tatillon → picky; fussy

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• fussy	→ difficile	↔ heikel — schwer zufrieden zu stellen
• fussy	→ mesquin; minutieux	↔ kleinkariert — peinlich genau, übergenau, engstirnig, kleinbürgerlich

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University