choosy
/ˈtʃuːzi
/adjective (choosier, choosiest) informal
Taking excessive care when making a choice: she’s become very choosy about food...
- He has 23 years of experience in satisfying hungry customers, some of whom were very choosy about what went into their stomach.
- She preferred white meat and warm buttered rolls, but she wasn't choosy.
- Is he just doing it because he figures at his age, he can't be choosy?
Synonyms
fussy, finicky, over-fastidious, over-particular, faddish, difficult/hard to please, dainty, exacting, demanding;
discriminating, discerning, selective
informal picky, pernickety
British informal faddy
North American informal persnickety
archaic nice, overnice
rare finical
Derivatives
choosily
- He is a director of Brighton And Hove Albion; he still accepts DJ engagements, albeit more choosily; and he has an occasional radio show which is syndicated to stations across the US.
- Doggie treats are practical and often nutritional - choose your treats choosily.
- On ‘Wax’, the voice is an oft authoritative, domineering cadence that choosily enunciates its way through the verbal tapestry of ‘American Dream’.
choosiness
- Clearly, the prediction of greater female choosiness under sexual selection models, and more equal choosiness under reinforcement models, is the least definitive of the three predictions.
- And yet, despite their choosiness, I wouldn't want to adopt their nutritional habits.
- Furthermore, the three focal bird species took the baits in very different ways in this experiment, ranging from no selection by color to a high level of choosiness.