fastidious 音标拼音: [fæst'ɪdiəs]
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fastidious adj 1 :
giving careful attention to detail ;
hard to please ;
excessively concerned with cleanliness ; "
a fastidious and incisive intellect "; "
fastidious about personal cleanliness " [
ant : {
unfastidious }]
2 :
having complicated nutritional requirements ;
especially growing only in special artificial cultures ; "
fastidious microorganisms "; "
certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements " [
synonym : {
fastidious },
{
exacting }] [
ant : {
unfastidious }]
Fastidious \
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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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 . --
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adv . -- {
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n .
Fastigiate 99 Moby Thesaurus words for "
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
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