CHOOSY Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

choosy

adjective

ˈchü-zē

variants or choosey

Definition of choosy

as in picky

hard to please a choosy dog who refuses all but the fanciest food

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as in selective

tending to select carefully a choosy man when it came to clothes for the office

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Recent Examples of choosy The idea of working together again comes up, and Russell, the choosier one, wouldn’t want to do just anything. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026 The unique flavors are enough to impress even the choosiest casserole connoisseur. — Emma Ashe, Southern Living, 15 May 2026 The increase in costs is yet to hit bookings, but passengers are being choosier about destinations. — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 May 2026 Be choosy about your containers, choosing breathable fabric options where possible that are still protective from bugs and dust. — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 1 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for choosy

Recent Examples of Synonyms for choosy

Adjective

Some producers will get much more picky about that and spend a lot of time aligning the playing to the grid.

— Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Violet helleborines are incredibly picky orchids, requiring a mature beech forest growing on a clay soil overlaid on chalk.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of picky

Adjective

Its work-in-progress was also one of five titles at the 2025 prestigious and highly selective Annecy Animation Showcase at the Cannes Festival’s Marché du Film.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026
The work builds on earlier research from Donghua professor Ye Chen’s group examining selective polyester recycling.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of selective

Adjective

Apply the serum directly to sparse areas of your brows, being careful to avoid letting the product touch other areas of your skin.

— Iman Balagam, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2026
According to the researchers, careful process design and optimization as well as architecture simplification could help in solving most of these issues, something that industrial production focuses on much more than academic researchers.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of careful

Adjective

Moisture trapped in the ground allows finicky crops such as onions and peanuts to grow.

— Adrien Marotte, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2026
Their odds of winning the World Series – a famously finicky task prone to small sample size flukes – were over 25%, one-in-four for one of baseball’s 30 teams.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of finicky

Adjective

Writer-director Stephen Butchko, for instance, may voice a robot cop with a Southern drawl, then seamlessly shift to a fussy Jarvis-like service bot with an English accent.

— David Bloom, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Infants may act sluggish or not active, vomit, be unusually fussy, face poor feeding, show a bulging soft spot on the head, or show poor reflexes.

— Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of fussy

Adjective

Leaders may not need to tax themselves heavily to gain some cognitive benefit during an already demanding period.

— Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
That makes both the X-ray measurement itself and the interpretation of its data increasingly demanding.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026

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