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fastidious
[ fa-stid-ee-uhs, fuh- ]
adjective
- excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please:
a fastidious eater.
- requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking.
fastidious
/ fæˈstɪdɪəs /
adjective
- very critical; hard to please
- excessively particular about details
- exceedingly delicate; easily disgusted
Derived Forms
- fasˈtidiousness, noun
- fasˈtidiously, adverb
Other Words From
- fas·tidi·ous·ly adverb
- fas·tidi·ous·ness noun
- hyper·fas·tidi·ous adjective
- hyper·fas·tidi·ous·ly adverb
- hyper·fas·tidi·ous·ness noun
- nonfas·tidi·ous adjective
- nonfas·tidi·ous·ly adverb
- nonfas·tidi·ous·ness noun
- over·fas·tidi·ous adjective
- over·fas·tidi·ous·ly adverb
- over·fas·tidi·ous·ness noun
- ultra·fas·tidi·ous adjective
- ultra·fas·tidi·ous·ly adverb
- ultra·fas·tidi·ous·ness noun
- unfas·tidi·ous adjective
- unfas·tidi·ous·ly adverb
- unfas·tidi·ous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of fastidious1
Word History and Origins
Origin of fastidious1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Very rarely, though, that fastidious and precise pulse deteriorates into a disorganized scramble.
Jeffries is apparently a frequent flyer as well as a fastidious and exacting one.
But I can attest first hand: one lapse aside, Fareed is just such a fastidious writer.
So that fastidious snuff-takers may dismiss this bugbear at once and forever.
It is one of the finest burning tobaccos in the world, and does not fail to suit the taste of the most fastidious of smokers.
Had she, so observant, so discerning in her fastidious taste—had she failed to notice the small detail too?
There are a great many obscene minds, yet more railing and satirical, but very few fastidious ones.
He was slow and fastidious in composition, and the poem suffered from over-elaboration.
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