About The Word Fastidious
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Fastidious
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What's The Definition Of Fastidious?
[adj] giving and careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
[adj] (microbiology) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fastidious: choosey | choosy | dainty | exacting | finical | finicky | fussy | meticulous | nice | old-maidish | old-womanish | overnice | particular | pernickety | persnickety | picky | prissy | squeamish Related Terms | Find terms related to Fastidious: accurate | appreciative | bleached | bright | careful | censorious | choicy | choosy | civilized | clean | cleanly | conscientious | critical | cultivated | cultured | dainty | delicate | differential | difficult | dirt-free | discriminate | discriminating | discriminative | distinctive | distinguishing | elegant | exact | exacting | fair | fine | finical | finicky | fresh | fussy | graceful | gracile | gracious | hypercritical | immaculate | kosher | meticulous | nice | nit-picking | nonpolluted | of cleanly habits | overconscientious | overscrupulous | particular | perfectionistic | picky | polished | precise | precisianistic | priggish | prudish | punctilious | punctual | pure | puristic | puritanic | refined | religious | ritually pure | scrupulous | selective | sensitive | shiny | smut-free | smutless | sophisticated | spotless | squeamish | stainless | strict | subtle | sweet | tactful | tahar | tender-conscienced | tubbed | unadulterated | unbesmirched | unblemished | unblotted | undefiled | unmuddied | unpolluted | unsmirched | unsmudged | unsoiled | unspotted | unstained | unsullied | untainted | untarnished | well-scrubbed | well-washed | white | whitened Fastidious In Webster's Dictionary \Fas*tid"i*ous\, a. [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr.
fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of
uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. {Tedious}, {Fash}.]
Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with
difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a
fastidious appetite.
Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. --Young.
Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious.
Usage: {Fastidious}, {Squeamish}. We call a person fastidious
when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling
defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is
excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also
when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty.
``Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to
be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and
scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish.'' --Crabb. --
{Fas*tid"i*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Fas*tid"i*ous*ness}, n.
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