difficult · choosy, fussy, picky
eş: ardu, dur
zıt: facile
köken: From Middle French difficil(e) (14th c.), a borrowing from Latin difficilis.
aile: difficilement, difficulté
🔊 Near-synonym: compliqué
🔊 la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile
🔊 être difficile
miserly, mean, stingy · punctilious, concerned with worthless small things or details
çekim: çoğul cicateros
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish cegatero (“reseller”), from Arabic سَقَّاط (saqqāṭ, “seller of trinkets”) + -ero. Related to Arabic سَقَط (saqaṭ, “worthless”). Coromines and Pascual explain the development ceg- > cic- as influence from cica (“money bag”).
aile: cicatería
demanding
eş: pieno di pretese, pretenzioso, difficile, schizzinoso, severo, pignolo
köken: From Latin exigēns, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”). Cognate with Piedmontese esigent.
aile: esigentemente
Rusça 🔊 взыска́тельный , избира́тельный , перебо́рчивый , привере́дливый , приди́рчивый , прихотли́вый
fastidious · overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness. · difficult to please; quick to find fault.
çekim: karşılaştırma daha vasvası · üstünlük ən vasvası
köken: Likely onomatopoeic.
choosy, fastidious, fussy
çekim: karşılaştırma kieskeuriger · üstünlük kieskeurigst
köken: From kiezen + keur + -ig.
past participle of enjoar
demanding, exacting · a persistant demander
Japonca 🔊 几帳面な , 喧しい , 好みのむずかしい , 小うるさい , 気難しい /ka̠ma̠bʲisɨ̥ɕiː/ clamorous
Korece 🔊 까다롭다 /ˈk͈a̠(ː)da̠ɾo̞p̚t͈a̠/ particular, fussy, picky, grumpy
eş: 어렵다, 번거롭다, 별나다
köken: Of native Korean origin.
🔊 그녀는 옷에 대해 아주 까다로워요.
demanding, exacting (especially towards someone in a subordinate position)
çekim: karşılaştırma mer fordrande · üstünlük mest fordrande
köken: present participle of fordra
🔊 en sträng och fordrande lärare
🔊 en fordrande chef / far
detailed, elaborate · nitpicky, petty
çekim: karşılaştırma bardziej drobiazgowy · üstünlük najbardziej drobiazgowy
eş: szczegółowy, skrupulatny, szczegółowy, skrupulatny, pedantyczny
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *drobězgъ Polish drobiazg Proto-Indo-European *-usder. Proto-Indo-European *-osder. Proto-Slavic *-ovъ Old Polish -owy Polish -owy Polish drobiazgowy From drobiazg + -owy.
aile: drobiazgowość
fastidious, finicky, capricious
köken: From веред (vered) + -ли́вий (-lývyj)
delicate, vulnerable · physically sensitive, tender · sensitive, easily offended
çekim: karşılaştırma herkempi · üstünlük herkin
köken: From Proto-Finnic *herkkä. Cognates include Estonian erk (“lively”), Ingrian herkkä, Karelian herkkä, Livonian erk (“lively”), Veps herk (“perky”) and Votic herkkõ.
aile: herketä, herkistää, herkkis, herkku, herkkyys, herkkyä, herkästi, aistiherkkä, epäherkkä, erityisherkkä
fastidious person
çekim: çoğul cusurgii · tamlayan cusurgiului
köken: From cusur + -giu.
discerning, refined, sophisticated, highbrow · of high standard, high-quality · exigent, demanding, taxing (expecting high quality from other people or things)
çekim: karşılaştırma igényesebb · üstünlük legigényesebb
zıt: igénytelen, kis igényű
köken: igény + -es
aile: igényesen, igényesség, erőforrás-igényes, eszközigényes, időigényes, munkaigényes, tőkeigényes
İbranice 🔊 בררן , בררנית , טרחני , עצבני irritable, uptight, nervous
particular (about food), choosy, picky
çekim: karşılaştırma mere kræsen · üstünlük mest kræsen
köken: From kræse. Compare Swedish kräsen.
Norveççe 🔊 overnøyaktig , pedantisk , pirkete
fussy (anxious or particular about petty details; hard to please) · troublesome, causing troubles, difficult to use (of tools)
çekim: karşılaştırma lebih rewel · üstünlük paling rewel
köken: Borrowed from Javanese ꦫꦺꦮꦺꦭ꧀ (réwél).
aile: kerewelan, merewel, mereweli, merewelkan
narrow-minded, small-minded · petty
çekim: karşılaştırma по́-дребна́ви · üstünlük на́й-дребна́ви
köken: дре́бен (drében) + -а́в (-áv)
Slovakça 🔊 prieberčivý , vyberavý
Tayca 🔊 จู้จี้จุกจิก , พิถีพิถัน , เอาใจยาก /pʰi˦˥.tʰiː˩˩˦.pʰi˦˥.tʰan˩˩˦/ punctilious; meticulous.
exigent, demanding
köken: Borrowed from Latin exigentem, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”).