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词汇 fussy
释义 fussy
adjective
 disapprovinguk /ˈfʌs.i/ us /ˈfʌs.i/

fussyadjective (NOT EASILY SATISFIED)


C2
not easily satisfied, or having very high standards about particular things: 过分挑剔的;难以满足的
All my children were fussy eaters.我所有的孩子都挑食。
fussy aboutHe's so fussy about the house - everything has to be absolutely perfect.他对房子太挑剔了——所有东西都必须绝对完美。
"Why am I still single?" "You're too fussy - that's your problem!"“我怎么还是单身?”“你太挑剔了―这就是你的问题!”
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Wanting everything to be right
anally
anally retentive
choosy
cover all the basesidiom
dot the i's and cross the t'sidiom
fuss
fussbudget
fussily
fussiness
fusspot
pedant
pedantic
pedantically
pedantry
perfectionism
punctilious
punctiliously
punctiliousness
purism
purist

fussyadjective (DECORATED TOO MUCH)


having too much decoration and too many small details, in a way that is not stylish: 过分装饰的,过于繁琐的
They've got those curtains that tie up with big bows - they're a little bit fussy for my taste.他们那些窗帘都打着大蝴蝶结——在我看来装饰得有点花哨。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not attractive to look at
back end
be no oil paintingidiom
be not much to look atidiom
bleakly
bleakness
gracelessly
have a face like the back end of a busidiom
hideous
hideousness
homeliness
putridly
reptilian
scrappily
scrappy
stolid
unpretty
unshapely
unsightly
vulgarity
vulgarly

fussyadjective (BABY)


US
A fussy baby is unhappy or difficult to please: (婴孩)难以取悦的,难缠的
It seems that the baby is always fussy at dinnertime.那个小孩好像在吃晚饭时总是很难缠。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
lovesick
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone

Related words


fussily
fussiness

Idiom


I'm not fussy/fussed

fussy | American Dictionary


fussy
adjective
us/ˈfʌs·i/

fussyadjective (NOT SATISFIED)


disapproving
not easily satisfied or pleased; worried or careful about unimportant details:
She’s really fussy about who she goes out with.
Kevin’s a fussy eater.

fussyadjective (TOO DECORATED)


having too much decoration or too many details:
My new dress is sophisticated but not too fussy.

Examples of fussy


fussy
If you wear your own clothes, try to make them smart and not too fussy.
Perhaps fussy was simply a straightforward term for the small-scaled, repetitive elements encrusting that proposal.
Such children are expected to be less fussy and, thus, less irritable than other children.
When we combined paternal and maternal reports into a single construct reflecting fussy/ difficult temperament, this association was no longer significant.
Children are irritable and fussy with the teacher with no apparent cause.
In cases when the infant was asleep or very fussy, visits were rescheduled.
The modern arbiters of garden taste have rejected the nineteenth-century suburban middle-class style as fussy and busy.
The present results suggest that alcoholic fathers tend to report their infants as being more fussy or difficult compared to those in the control group.
Virtually every element of his appearance is ridiculous: filthy, garish, fussy, and obviously cheap.
If something as trivial as a sailing trip can generate obligations, why do we have to be so fussy about the goal of the joint activity of law?
Further, although maternal reports of infant temperament were associated with lower infant positive affect during interactions with father, few relationships emerged between difficult or fussy temperament and parent-infant interactions.
His later texts have a strong streak of parody and even black humour, which sits oddly with his experimental verse forms and his fussy attention to stage action.
The sympathetically reactive, perhaps irritable or fussy neonate may either gather more attentive caregiving on one hand or may receive less affiliative caregiving on the other.
The latent variables for prediction of infant attachment security with father included fathers' alcohol problems, fathers' depression, fathers' antisocial behavior, family conflict, and infant fussy/difficult temperament.
The tourists, i.e. the consumers of tourist products, book their holidays increasingly late and are becoming increasingly fussy.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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