fastidiousadj.

Brit.

/faˈstɪdɪəs/, U.S.

/fæˈstɪdiəs/

Forms: late Middle English ffastidiose, late Middle English– fastidious.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin fastīdiōsus.

Etymology: < classical Latin fastīdiōsus showing aversion to food, squeamish, critical, exacting, unsatisfied, haughty, disdainful, nauseating < fastīdium loathing (see fastidie n.) + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare fastidiose adj.Compare Middle French, French fastidieux disgusting, boring, disagreeable, haughty (second half of the 14th cent.).

†1.

a. That causes distaste, aversion, or disgust in a person; distasteful, disgusting; (in somewhat weakened use) unpleasant, disagreeable, wearisome. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant

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c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 15 (MED) He wente to the kyng with a lamentable querell, expressynge..whate fastidious owtbrekyngis hadde temptid hym.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. ix. sig. Div That thinge, for the whiche children be often tymes beaten, is to them..fastidious.

1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes ii. xxiii. 102 A fastidious Ulcer.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 193 A fastidious and irksome companion.

1640 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (rev. ed.) viii. 372 The way being fastidious and Rockey, and Chatteline on foote being weary.

a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 15 Folly is freakish and humorous..and consequently fastidious to society.

1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 56 His Partner, whose usage was..fastidious to him.

b. Characterized by feelings of distaste, aversion, or disgust for someone or something. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [adjective]

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a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1312/1 Hee hadde of theym so muche, that he was full thereof, fastidious and wery.

1631 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Rawleigh his Ghost ii. xxiv. 412 That blessed spirits could haue a fastidious & cloyed conceit of diuine contemplation, and that they could sinne.

a. Haughty, proud; showing or expressing scorn or disdain for something. Now archaic and rare.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [adjective] > contemptuous

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the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > [adjective]

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?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 13 Y..schalle prosecute my processe, perauenture contemptible to fastidious men [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. envious men and proude; L. fastidiosis], but..not vnprofitable to goode studentes.

1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx sig. S2^v What art thou for a man, that thou shouldst be fastidious of the acquaintaunce of men?

1631 B. Jonson New Inne Ode 7 Their fastidious, vaine Commission of the braine.

1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xiii. 327 Another sort of men there are of so fastidious and petulant wits, that they disdain an opinion of which themselves are not the Authors.

1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 29 Proud Youth! Fastidious of the lower world!

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1773 I. 427 We see the Rambler with fastidious smile Mark the lone tree.

1994 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Jan. ii. 5/1 I can see him still,..a lock of sandy hair over his forehead and a fastidious sneer beneath it.

†b. Of a thing: stately, magnificent, or imposing in appearance; = proud adj. 5b. Obsolete.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [adjective] > magnificent

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1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 62 One of them [sc. Courts] fastidious in foure hundred porphirian pillars.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 102 Temples of Idolatry..once lofty in fastidious Turrets.

a. Scrupulously or minutely concerned with refinement in matters of taste or propriety; having exacting standards or paying meticulous attention to detail; (now sometimes) spec. very concerned about standards of cleanliness; insistent that things are kept very clean and tidy. Often with the negative implication that the concern is excessive and the person difficult to please.

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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [adjective]

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [adjective] > captiously

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?1555 T. Paynell tr. J. L. Vives Office of Husband sig. I.ii^v There are certayne commodities that the luxurious & fastidious man may haue to satiate and fulfyl hys wyl with all.

1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xix. 512 A fastidious choice of the best commodities.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God Pref. sig. A5^v Fastidious Readers.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 104. ⁋9 The mind..becomes..nice and fastidious, and like a vitiated palate.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 266 People whom the habit of seeing magnificent buildings..had made fastidious.

1877 W. Black Green Pastures (1878) xlii. 338 The society..was not at all fastidious in its language.

1930 Times 1 Dec. 7/3 There are two critical tests of a high hurdler..and Tisdall would have satisfied the most fastidious observer.

1949 E. Goudge Gentian Hill (1992) iii. vi. 281 No matter how domesticated he became his fastidious taste would never approve raw meat.

1980 R. Mayer 1937 Newark Bears ii. 11 He was a fastidious dresser, who changed his clothes several times a day, wore custom-made shoes, and had a valet.

2018 Beaumont (Canada) News (Nexis) 27 July a23 Some nooks and crannies in the home can confound even the most fastidious housekeepers.

b. Indicative of or resulting from a meticulous concern with appearance or cleanliness; kept scrupulously clean, neat, and tidy.

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1847 E. C. Gray Hist. Rome for Young Persons I. xxiv. 430 Scipio, when in Sicily, was reproved by Cato for his fastidious dress and Grecian manners.

1906 Cassell's Mag. 32 417/1 Here, in the upper chambers, he had at this date his fastidious and somewhat lonely home.

1926 J. Colton Shanghai Gesture ii. 122 They are a French couple of extremely rich and fastidious appearance.

2019 @hrrgorman 11 July in twitter.com (accessed 14 Dec. 2020) His wife keeps everything fastidious.

4. Biology. Of an organism, spec. a plant or bacterium: having specific or exacting environmental or nutritional requirements; (hence) difficult to cultivate.

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1840 Floricultural Mag. Nov. 124 To grow this fastidious plant [sc. Ranunculus] well, the beds require to be renewed annually, and to be filled up sufficiently to allow for settling.

1899 E. O. Jordan tr. F. Hueppe Princ. Bacteriol. 191 They [sc. the bacteria of typhoid fever] grow at room and at blood temperatures and are not fastidious [G. wählerisch] about their food-substance.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1126 The extant Sequoias seem to be very fastidious as regards their environments.

1998 Economist 21 Mar. 125/1 A number of new biochemical tools capable of identifying so-called ‘fastidious’ bacteria—bugs that are difficult to extract from infected tissue and grow in cultures for identification—were being developed to aid the search.

2014 J. E. Meisel et al. Orchids Trop. Amer. 4 And even if you never visit orchids in their tropical homelands, nor keep these fastidious plants in your home, the pages that follow present a collection of entertaining tales.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	fastidious
释义	fastidiousadj. Brit. /faˈstɪdɪəs/, U.S. /fæˈstɪdiəs/ Forms: late Middle English ffastidiose, late Middle English– fastidious. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin fastīdiōsus. Etymology: < classical Latin fastīdiōsus showing aversion to food, squeamish, critical, exacting, unsatisfied, haughty, disdainful, nauseating < fastīdium loathing (see fastidie n.) + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare fastidiose adj.Compare Middle French, French fastidieux disgusting, boring, disagreeable, haughty (second half of the 14th cent.). †1. a. That causes distaste, aversion, or disgust in a person; distasteful, disgusting; (in somewhat weakened use) unpleasant, disagreeable, wearisome. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant loatha700 unsweetc890 grimlyc893 unquemeOE un-i-quemeOE evila1131 sourc1175 illc1220 unhightlyc1275 unwelcomec1325 unblithec1330 unnetc1330 unrekena1350 unagreeablec1374 uncouthc1380 unsavouryc1380 displeasantc1386 unlikinga1398 ungaina1400 crabbedc1400 unlovelyc1400 displeasing1401 eschewc1420 unsoot1420 mislikinga1425 unlikelya1425 unlustya1425 fastidiousc1425 unpleasantc1430 displicable1471 unthankfulc1475 displeasant1481 uneasy1483 unpleasinga1500 unfaring1513 badc1530 malpleasant?1533 noisome1542 thanklessa1547 ungrate1548 untoothsome1548 ungreeable1550 contrary1561 disagreeable1570 offensible1575 offensive1576 naughty1578 delightlessa1586 undelightful1585 unwisheda1586 unpleasurable1587 undelightsomec1595 dislikeful1596 disliking1596 ungrateful1596 unsweet?a1600 distastive1600 impleasing1602 distasting1603 distasteful1607 unsightly1608 undelectable1610 disgustful1611 unrelishing1611 waspisha1616 undeliciousa1618 unwished-for1617 disrelishing1631 unenjoyed1643 unjoyous1645 mirya1652 unwelcomed1651 unpleasivea1656 sweet1656 injucund1657 insuave1657 unpalatable1658 unhandsome1660 undesirable1667 disrelishablea1670 uncouthsome1684 shocking1703 nasty1705 embittering1746 indelectable1751 undelightinga1774 nice and ——1796 unenjoyablea1797 ungenial1796 uncomplacent1805 ungracious1807 bitter1810 rotten1813 uncongenial1813 quarrelsome1825 grimy1833 nice1836 unrelished1863 bloody1867 unbewitching1876 ferocious1877 displeasurable1879 rebarbative1892 charming1893 crook1898 naar1900 peppery1901 negative1902 poisonous1906 off-putting1935 unsympathetic1937 piggy1942 funky1946 umpty1948 pooey1967 minging1970 Scrooge-like1976 sucky1984 stank1991 stanky1991 c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 15 (MED) He wente to the kyng with a lamentable querell, expressynge..whate fastidious owtbrekyngis hadde temptid hym. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. ix. sig. Div That thinge, for the whiche children be often tymes beaten, is to them..fastidious. 1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes ii. xxiii. 102 A fastidious Ulcer. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 193 A fastidious and irksome companion. 1640 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (rev. ed.) viii. 372 The way being fastidious and Rockey, and Chatteline on foote being weary. a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 15 Folly is freakish and humorous..and consequently fastidious to society. 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 56 His Partner, whose usage was..fastidious to him. b. Characterized by feelings of distaste, aversion, or disgust for someone or something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [adjective] irk1303 wlatfula1387 squeamous1398 irksome1435 fastidiousa1535 loathsome1577 out of love (with)1577 squeamish1581 loathingc1595 sick1600 distastive1611 distastefula1616 detestant1650 distasting1654 the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adjective] awlated1297 fastidiousa1535 distasted1651 disgusted1705 revolted1792 disgustful1841 sick1850 skeeved1991 a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1312/1 Hee hadde of theym so muche, that he was full thereof, fastidious and wery. 1631 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Rawleigh his Ghost ii. xxiv. 412 That blessed spirits could haue a fastidious & cloyed conceit of diuine contemplation, and that they could sinne. 2. a. Haughty, proud; showing or expressing scorn or disdain for something. Now archaic and rare. 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R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 13 Y..schalle prosecute my processe, perauenture contemptible to fastidious men [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. envious men and proude; L. fastidiosis], but..not vnprofitable to goode studentes. 1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx sig. S2^v What art thou for a man, that thou shouldst be fastidious of the acquaintaunce of men? 1631 B. Jonson New Inne Ode 7 Their fastidious, vaine Commission of the braine. 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xiii. 327 Another sort of men there are of so fastidious and petulant wits, that they disdain an opinion of which themselves are not the Authors. 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 29 Proud Youth! Fastidious of the lower world! 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1773 I. 427 We see the Rambler with fastidious smile Mark the lone tree. 1994 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Jan. ii. 5/1 I can see him still,..a lock of sandy hair over his forehead and a fastidious sneer beneath it. †b. Of a thing: stately, magnificent, or imposing in appearance; = proud adj. 5b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [adjective] > magnificent lordlylOE richc1275 prouda1300 noblec1300 gloriousc1315 reala1325 rialc1330 stouta1350 solemnc1386 royalc1400 pompousc1425 statelyc1425 lordlike1488 magnific1490 of state1498 magnificenta1530 pompatic1535 magnificala1538 princely1539 gorgeous?1542 regal1561 superbious?1566 surly1566 splendent1567 heroical1577 superbous1581 sumptuous1594 pompatical1610 pompal1616 fastidious1638 grand1673 splendid1685 grandific1727 grandiose1818 splendiferous1827 splendacious1843 magnolious1863 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 62 One of them [sc. Courts] fastidious in foure hundred porphirian pillars. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 102 Temples of Idolatry..once lofty in fastidious Turrets. 3. a. Scrupulously or minutely concerned with refinement in matters of taste or propriety; having exacting standards or paying meticulous attention to detail; (now sometimes) spec. very concerned about standards of cleanliness; insistent that things are kept very clean and tidy. Often with the negative implication that the concern is excessive and the person difficult to please. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [adjective] chisa700 estfula1000 esquaymous1303 squeamousc1325 overnicec1350 curiousc1380 dangerousc1386 delicatea1393 preciousc1395 nicec1400 skigc1400 over-delicatea1425 daintethc1430 ticklec1456 quaint1483 dauncha1500 pickinga1500 feat?1529 elegant?1533 queasy1545 fine1546 fine-fingered1549 fastidious?1555 fine-mouthed1559 chary1567 weamish1571 saucy1573 dainty1576 superfine1576 niced1577 overcurious1579 nicing1581 fineish1582 prick-me-dainty1583 daint1590 finical1592 tiptoe-nice1593 nice1594 nicking1598 choice1601 squeamish1608 marchpane1609 hypercritical1611 particular1616 finicking1661 overcritical1667 just so1696 penurious1703 fal-lal1747 ogertful1754 nackety1756 quiddling1789 pernickety1808 pershittie1808 taffety1814 hypercritic1820 faddy1824 finicky1825 meticulous1827 daintified1834 squeamy1838 picksome1855 choosey1862 picky1867 hyperaesthetic1879 persnickety1885 précieux1891 perskeet1897 tasty1905 Nice Nelly1922 perfectionist1942 snicketya1960 perfectionistic1968 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [adjective] > captiously captiousc1380 pick-fault1544 fastidious?1555 sharp-nosed1561 cavillous?1571 carpacious1574 cavillinga1576 find-fault1576 Zoilous1577 carpinga1586 exceptious1602 quarrellous1610 exceptive1623 Zoilitical1665 nibbling1691 pickthanking1830 Zoilean1846 snippy1848 nitpicking1948 nitpicky1962 ?1555 T. Paynell tr. J. L. Vives Office of Husband sig. I.ii^v There are certayne commodities that the luxurious & fastidious man may haue to satiate and fulfyl hys wyl with all. 1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xix. 512 A fastidious choice of the best commodities. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God Pref. sig. A5^v Fastidious Readers. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 104. ⁋9 The mind..becomes..nice and fastidious, and like a vitiated palate. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 266 People whom the habit of seeing magnificent buildings..had made fastidious. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures (1878) xlii. 338 The society..was not at all fastidious in its language. 1930 Times 1 Dec. 7/3 There are two critical tests of a high hurdler..and Tisdall would have satisfied the most fastidious observer. 1949 E. Goudge Gentian Hill (1992) iii. vi. 281 No matter how domesticated he became his fastidious taste would never approve raw meat. 1980 R. Mayer 1937 Newark Bears ii. 11 He was a fastidious dresser, who changed his clothes several times a day, wore custom-made shoes, and had a valet. 2018 Beaumont (Canada) News (Nexis) 27 July a23 Some nooks and crannies in the home can confound even the most fastidious housekeepers. b. Indicative of or resulting from a meticulous concern with appearance or cleanliness; kept scrupulously clean, neat, and tidy. ΚΠ 1847 E. C. Gray Hist. Rome for Young Persons I. xxiv. 430 Scipio, when in Sicily, was reproved by Cato for his fastidious dress and Grecian manners. 1906 Cassell's Mag. 32 417/1 Here, in the upper chambers, he had at this date his fastidious and somewhat lonely home. 1926 J. Colton Shanghai Gesture ii. 122 They are a French couple of extremely rich and fastidious appearance. 2019 @hrrgorman 11 July in twitter.com (accessed 14 Dec. 2020) His wife keeps everything fastidious. 4. Biology. Of an organism, spec. a plant or bacterium: having specific or exacting environmental or nutritional requirements; (hence) difficult to cultivate. ΚΠ 1840 Floricultural Mag. Nov. 124 To grow this fastidious plant [sc. Ranunculus] well, the beds require to be renewed annually, and to be filled up sufficiently to allow for settling. 1899 E. O. Jordan tr. F. Hueppe Princ. Bacteriol. 191 They [sc. the bacteria of typhoid fever] grow at room and at blood temperatures and are not fastidious [G. wählerisch] about their food-substance. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1126 The extant Sequoias seem to be very fastidious as regards their environments. 1998 Economist 21 Mar. 125/1 A number of new biochemical tools capable of identifying so-called ‘fastidious’ bacteria—bugs that are difficult to extract from infected tissue and grow in cultures for identification—were being developed to aid the search. 2014 J. E. Meisel et al. Orchids Trop. Amer. 4 And even if you never visit orchids in their tropical homelands, nor keep these fastidious plants in your home, the pages that follow present a collection of entertaining tales. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.c1425
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