{"id": "finicky", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "finicky", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "finickiness", "text": "finickiness"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["early 19th century: from finical + -y"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/finicky_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8f\u026an\u026aki"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["(of a person) fussy about their needs or requirements"], "examples": [{"text": "a finicky eater"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0363450.005", "shortDefinitions": ["fussy about their needs or requirements"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["showing or requiring great attention to detail"], "examples": [{"text": "his finicky copperplate hand"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0363450.009", "shortDefinitions": ["showing or requiring great attention to detail"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "attentive"}, {"language": "en", "text": "conscientious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "painstaking"}, {"language": "en", "text": "meticulous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "diligent"}, {"language": "en", "text": "assiduous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "sedulous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "scrupulous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "punctilious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fastidious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "methodical"}, {"language": "en", "text": "orderly"}, {"language": "en", "text": "deliberate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "judicious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "perfectionist"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "careful", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0002047.004"}]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "fussy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fastidious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "punctilious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "over-particular"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hard to please"}, {"language": "en", "text": "overcritical"}, {"language": "en", "text": "difficult"}, {"language": "en", "text": "awkward"}, {"language": "en", "text": "exacting"}, {"language": "en", "text": "demanding"}, {"language": "en", "text": "perfectionist"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "finicky", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0005673.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "finicky"}], "type": "headword", "word": "finicky"}], "word": "finicky"}