Fastidious
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English
Adjective
Fastidious (comparative more Fastidious, superlative most Fastidious)
- Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details.
- Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness; meticulous.
- Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
Adverbs for Fastidious
inordinately; extravagantly; daintily; precisely; primly; exquisitely; neatly; habitually; punctiliously; rigidly; strictly; rigorously; arbitrarily; admirably; marvellously; meticulously; priggishly; delicately; captiously; censoriously; scrupulously.
Synonyms for Fastidious
- (excessively particular): exacting, fussy, meticulous
- delicate, finicky, fussy, dainty, particular, nice, meticulous, squeamish, choosy, critical.
Antonyms for Fastidious
gross, boorish, uncritical, tasteless, indifferent.
Thesaurus
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
Etymology
From Latin fastidiosus (“passive: that feels disgust, disdainful, scornful, fastidious; active: that causes disgust, disgusting, loathsome”) < fastidium (“a loathing, aversion, disgust, niceness of taste, daintiness, etc.”), perhaps for *fastutidium < fastus (“disdain, haughtiness, arrogance, disgust”) + taedium (“disgust”). Confer French fastidieux.
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