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单词 fastidious
释义
fastidiousfas‧tid‧i‧ous /fæˈstɪdiəs/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINfastidious
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin fastidiosus, from fastidium ‘strong dislike’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A cat is a fastidious animal that washes itself frequently.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And second, the boy was fastidious with his toy.
  • Archie may not have been fastidious, but in his own way he was cultivated.
  • His fastidious imagination shied away from the details of Jack's new ménage.
  • Such questions are distasteful for a fastidious cleric who thinks of sexuality as a loss of self-control.
  • Vibrato, like all flavouring, needs very fastidious use on brass instruments.
  • When hungry times set in, the scouts become less fastidious and give lengthy dances even for poor food.
very careful about small details in your appearance, work etc SYN  meticulous:  people who are fastidious about personal hygienefastidiously adverbfastidiousness noun [uncountable]
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