fastidious
If you want to describe a person who insists on perfection or pays much attention to food, clothing and cleanliness, the right word is fastidious.
Fastidious is a funny-sounding adjective from the Latin fastidium "loathing" that has several equally strange-sounding synonyms — persnickety, fussbudgety, finicky and punctilious. Fussy and hard to please will also do the trick. Fastidious is occasionally used as a compliment to describe someone whose attention to detail gives them good organizing abilities, but it is usually used as a disapproving term.
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giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness“a fastidious and incisive intellect”“fastidious about personal cleanliness”
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Synonyms:
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choosey, choosy
difficult to please
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dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
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finical, finicky, fussy, particular, picky
exacting especially about details
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meticulous
marked by extreme care in treatment of details
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pernickety, persnickety
characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details
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old-maidish, old-womanish
primly fastidious
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refined
(used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
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tidy
marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits
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Antonyms:
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unfastidious
marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail; not concerned with cleanliness
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unrefined
(used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth
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untidy
not neat and tidy
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choosey, choosy
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having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures“fastidious microorganisms”
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synonyms:
exacting
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Antonyms:
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unfastidious
not exacting in nutritional requirements
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unfastidious
Vocabulary lists containing fastidious
After an ogress is accused of abducting the children of Stone-in-the-Glen, a group of orphans try to save her and convince the townspeople of her good nature.
Ahead of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, Jewish teenage boys begin to disappear from the city's streets. After his best friend goes missing, Alter must race to solve the mystery before he becomes the killer's next victim.
Koffi, a sixteen-year-old indentured worker at the Night Zoo, joins forces with Ekon, the son of a decorated hero, to hunt down a dangerous creature that is threatening their home.
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